Realm: Terrestrial
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Mediterranean Forests, woodlands and scrubs
Central latitude: 41.538394
Central longitude: 2.139946
Duration: 14 years, from 2008 to 2021

609 records

9 distinct species

Across the time series Apodemus sylvaticus is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

At each site, we used 36 traps arranged in a 6 × 6 trapping grid, consisting of 18 Sherman traps (Sherman folding small animal trap; 23 × 7.5 × 9 cm; Sherman Co., USA) and 18 Longworth traps (Penlon Ltd., Oxford, UK), alternated in position and deployed simultaneously. Traps were placed on the ground spaced 15 m, and were baited with a piece of apple and a mixture of tuna, flour and oil, and insulated by including hydrophobic cotton for bedding. We performed two sampling sessions on a seasonal basis (spring-autumn). Traps were operated during three consecutive nights and revised during the early morning of the first, second and third day. The small mammals caught were identified to species, sexed, marked (rodents with ear tags National Band Co.USA- and shrews with fur clips), and released at the point of capture. Research on live animals followed American Society of Mammalogists guidelines (Sikes et al., 2011).

Citation(s)

@Article{BioTIME_cit422, Study_id = {689}, Citation_id = {422}, Author = {Torre, Ignasi and Raspall, Alfons and Arrizabalaga, Antoni and Díaz, Mario}, Journal = {Mammalian Biology}, Pages = { 161-167}, Title = {SEMICE: An unbiased and powerful monitoring protocol for small mammals in the Mediterranean Region}, Volume = {88}, Year = {2018}, Language = {English} }