Sample name: Mpala Research Centre

Reference: F. Keesing. 1998. Impacts of ungulates on the demography and diversity of small mammals in central Kenya. Oecologia 116:381-389 [ER 919]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 19.0

MAP: 508.0

Habitat comments: "wooded grassland... dominated by a swollen-thorn acacia, Acacia drepanolobium" with cattle present but apparently not dominant
MAP 500 to 600 according to the text; climate data are from Huho et al. (2011, Educational Research) and are for the Mukogodo Division of Laikipia District, which includes this coordinate

Life forms: rodents, other small mammals

Sites: 2

Site area: 8.0

Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, Sherman traps

Sample size: 1475 individuals

Years: 1995 - 1997

Days: 21

Nets or traps: 200

Net or trap nights: 4200

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "three blocks" of two treatments; "Each treatment is 4 ha (200 m x 200 m); each block is 24 ha (400 m x 600 m)... Each 4-ha plot was set with a 10 by 10 grid with 10 m spacing... Trapping was conducted for three consecutive nights, using large folding Sherman traps, with one trap per station. Traps were baited with a mixture of peanut butter and oatmeal... I conducted seven trapping sessions"

Sample no: 1380

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-25 10:21:10

Modified: 2015-10-05 06:04:17