• Address:
  705 Spear Street
  South Burlington, Vermont 05403
  United States of America
  
  Phone: (802) 391-4135
  Email: femc@uvm.edu
  Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Inventory the species of small mammals present in the Browns River headwaters on Mount Mansfield; assess the habitat preferences of the species present; and monitor the presence of each species in the area.

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• dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: Genus_Species

• dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: genus species

• dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: text

• dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: nominal

• dataset_eml_attributelistlabel: record

• dataset_eml_attributelistdescription: record

• dataset_eml_attributeliststoragetype: int

• dataset_eml_attributelistmeasurementtype: ordinal

• Live trap plots
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1994-06-01
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Plots for live traps were established at 1200 and 2200 ft. elevations.

• Small mammal data
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1991-04-01
    dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1995-11-01
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Initial information on small mammals at 4 elevation-habitat types has been collected using pitfall catches at drift fences as part of an amphibian survey on Mount Mansfield conducted since 1991.

• Survey techniques
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1994-05-01
    dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1994-11-01
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Four techniques are used to survey: night-time live-trapping, pitfall traps at drift fences, morning transect walks, and road surveys.

• Setting traps
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1994-06-02
    dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1994-07-25
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: 40 live-traps per site were used in a 4 X 10 trap pattern at 10 m intervals. Traps were set in early evening hours, baited with rolled oats and peanut butter, then checked in the morning. Captured animals were identified to species and sexed, then released. Traps were set on 9 nights per site for a total of 720 trap nights from June 2 to July 25.

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• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1995-06-01
  dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1995-07-29
  
• dataset_eml_methoddescription: Live traps were set on 8 nights at two locations: 3800 ft along the Sunset Ridge Trail and at 4200 ft. along the summit ridgeline. At each site, 20 traps were set in an irregular pattern (dictated by vegetation and terrain) within an area of 1 - 1.5 ha. Traps were set from June 1 through July 29.

• Pitfall traps
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1994-05-18
    dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1994-11-01
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Pitfall traps associated with the amphibian survey drift fences were used: 2 at 1200 ft., one at 2200 ft. Pitfall traps were opened in the evening and checked the following morning, 12 times between May 18 and November 1.

• dataset_eml_methodsUnnamed
• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1995-05-01
  dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1995-11-01
  
• dataset_eml_methoddescription: Pitfall traps were opened on 18 evenings between May 1 and November 1.

• Small mammal activity
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1994-06-03
    dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1994-07-26
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Morning transect walks consisted of recording all small mammal activity while walking a 0.5 mile transect at 2200 feet or 0.25 mile transect at 1200 ft. Each transect was walked 9 times, once per week from June 3 through July 26.

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• dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1994-11-01
  
• dataset_eml_methoddescription: Transect walks were discontinued.

• Road surveys
  • dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1994-06-03
    dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1994-07-26
    
  • dataset_eml_methoddescription: Road surveys along roads within the Mount Mansfield Browns River and Stevensville Brook watersheds were driven mid-day and all mammals living or dead were recorded. This 9.8 mile route was driven 9 times, once each week between June 3 and July 26.

• dataset_eml_methodsUnnamed
• dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1994-11-01
  
• dataset_eml_methoddescription: Road surveys were discontinued.

• dataset_eml_methodsStartDate: 1991-04-01
  dataset_eml_methodsEndDate: 1995-11-01
• dataset_eml_samplingdescription: 4-metal drift fences with 10 pitfall traps; Sherman and Tomahawk folding traps; permanent ear tags, individually coded.