Sample name: Castelo do Piauí

Reference: F. S. Rodrigues and A. L. C. Prudente. 2011. The snake assemblage (Squamata: Serpentes) of a Cerrado-Caatinga transition area in Castelo do Piauí, state of Piauí, Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba) 28(4):440-448 [ER 1150]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 33.6

WMT: 35.0

CMT: 21.8

MAP: 1199.0

Habitat comments: "a transition area between the Caatinga and Cerrado, with a pre- dominance of a low altitude Cerrado Rupestre (rocky grasslands)... dry sub-humid" and specifically "low altitude Cerrado Rupestre... Campo Cerrado (open Cerrado)" and "secondary forest of typical Cerrado"

Life forms: snakes

Sampling methods: no design, drift fences, pitfall traps, hand capture

Sample size: 77 individuals

Years: 2005, 2006

Days: 77

Seasons: dry, wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 84

Net or trap nights: 6468

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "a) time constrained search... 2) pitfall traps with drift fences... and 3) incidental encounters... Seven sets of traps were installed in each of the three areas. Each set contained four 60 L buckets, arranged in a “Y” configuration, 10 m apart from one another and connected by 100 cm high drift-fences... the traps remained open during 77 days, spread over four expeditions, two in the dry season and two in the rainy season... Time constrained search... was performed for 38 days in each of the three areas"

Sample no: 1676

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-05 09:39:42

Modified: 2020-05-29 10:27:43