Differential trapping success for small mammals using pitfall and standard cage traps in a woodland savannah region of southwestern Brazil

Mammalia

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-52

  Caceres, Nilton C ^a   Nápoli, Rodrigo P ^b   Hannibal, Wellington ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^b R Major Virgolino Esmanhotto   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado biome; Cryptonanus agricolai; Monodelphis kunsi; Sherman trap efficacy; Thylamys macrurus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOME; CERRADO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; SAVANNA; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); TRAPPING; WOODLAND;

BRAZIL;

CRYPTONANUS; DIDELPHIDAE; MAMMALIA; MONODELPHIS KUNSI; THYLAMYS MACRURA;

EID: 79951756131     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2010.069     Document Type: Article

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