Sample name: Aldea el Rancho

Reference: J. O. Matson, N. Ordóñez-Garza, W. Bulmer, and R. P. Eckerlin. 2012. Small mammal communities in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Mastozoología Neotropical 19(1):71-84 [ER 927]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical coniferous forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 19.7

CMT: 16.1

MAP: 982.0

Habitat comments: "coniferous cloud forest composed of several species of conifers"
climate data are for Comitan de Dominguez and are from Johnson et al. (2015, Mesoamerican Herpetology)

Life forms: rodents, other small mammals

Sampling methods: no design, pitfall traps, Sherman traps, snap traps

Sample size: 142 individuals

Years: 2004, 2005, 2008

Seasons: dry

Net or trap nights: 1786

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "In 2004/2005 we recorded 600 trap nights and 76 pitfall nights. In 2008 we recorded 863 trap nights and 247 pitfall nights"; trapping employed "Victor rat, Museum Special, Sherman collapsible live, and pitfall (1 liter) traps... set at 5 m to 10 m intervals in straight lines" (baiting not discussed)

Sample no: 1400

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-26 09:53:11

Modified: 2015-12-01 02:56:07