Jornada Validation Site (1971)
Basic information
Sample name: Jornada Validation Site (1971)

Reference: J. G. Hallett. 1982. Habitat Selection and the Community Matrix of a Desert Small-Mammal Fauna. Ecology 63(5):1400-1410 [ER 1650]
Geography
Country: United States

State: New Mexico


County: Dona Ana


Coordinate: 32.5° N, -106.8° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "~40 km north northeast of Las Cruces"
coordinate is based on Knapp et al. (2008, Global Change Biology)

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 14.4

MAP: 264.0

Habitat comments: "creosote bush" was "the predominant shrub"
climate data are from Knapp et al. (2008) and are for the Jornada Experimental Range

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sites: 1

Site length: 100

Site width: 100

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 253 individuals

Years: 1971

Days: 16

Nets or traps: 100

Net or trap nights: 1600

Sampling comments: "Rodent populations were followed from May 1971 through January 1974... data were collected... by live-trapping on a 10 x 10 grid (1 ha) with 10-m trap spacing. Sherman live traps baited with cracked milo were run on four consecutive nights at roughly bimonthly intervals. Two traps were placed at alternate stations, and double-trap stations were changed each trap night"
sampling effort presumably 100 traps x 4 nights x 4 sampling periods (May, July, September, November)

Metadata
Sample number: 1850

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-12-20 20:57:12

Modified: 2015-12-20 09:57:12

Abundance distribution
9 species
1 singleton
total count 253
geometric series index: 11.6
Fisher's α: 1.822
geometric series k: 0.5392
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6466
Shannon's H: 1.4293
Good's u: 0.9961
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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