Rintoul Creek Road
Basic information
Sample name: Rintoul Creek Road

Sample aka: Boola-Boola State Forest

Reference: G. R. Friend. 1979. The response of small mammals to clearing and burning of eucalypt forest in south-eastern Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 6(2):151-163 [ER 855]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Victoria

Coordinate: 38° 12' S, 147° 32' E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "10 km north-west of Traralgon"
latitude given as 30 12 but is certainly 38 12

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Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

WMT: 19.2

CMT: 9.1

MAP: 648.0

Habitat comments: secondary forest dominated by Eucalyptus and Acacia, logged during the study period
climate data are for station 94907 (RAAF Base East Sale)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, other small mammals

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, cage traps, Elliott traps

Sample size: 260 individuals

Years: 1976, 1977

Nets or traps: 350

Net or trap nights: 3202

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: 11 nearly adjacent trap grids including 350 cage traps and Elliott traps baited with "peanut butter, rolled oats and treacle"
nine grids were 6 x 5 and the other two were 10 x 4, all with 20-m spacing
counts are of individuals

Metadata
Sample no: 1210

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-16 09:38:39

Modified: 2015-10-04 10:15:57

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
7 species
2 singletons
total count 260
geometric series index: 10.6
Fisher's α: 1.325
geometric series k: 0.4135
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3886
Shannon's H: 0.8502
Good's u: 0.9923
Register
Rattus fuscipes (bush rat)200
Rattus lutreolus (Australian swamp rat)10
Antechinus stuartii (brown antechinus)30
Antechinus swainsonii (Tasmanian dusky antechinus)7
Mus musculus (house mouse)11
Felis catus (domestic cat)1
Pseudocheirus peregrinus (common ringtail possum)1