Long-Term Population Monitoring of Small Mammals on Short Grass Prairie (LT4)
Paul Stapp, Department of Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92834-6850, 714-278-2849
Mark D. Lindquist, SGS LTER Site, Nunn, CO, 80648
970-897-2210 mark.lindquist@colostate.edu
Bill Laurenroth, Dept of Forest, Range, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523
970-491-7581 billl@cnr.colostate.edu
Objective: Monitor populations of rodent species on northern shortgrass prairie as part of the Long-Term Ecological Research Program.
Methods: Live-trapping two times per year on 6 3-ha trapping webs shrub and upland pastures. Please see attached proposal.
Study Area: Animal populations are dynamic and we need to census populations in different pastures to determine where our long-term monitoring sites will be. At present, we will plant to establish trapping webs in shrub-dominated winter-grazed pastures (13NE, 13SE, 24NE, 30NE, and/or 19SW) and upland summer-grazed pastures (22NW, 22SW, 26NW). We will notify you of the exact location of these webs when we have sampled populations on these sites.
Protocol (msword)
Datasheet (msword)
01/21/2008