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The trap‐line index to small mammal populations
Author(s) -
Southern H. N.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
proceedings of the zoological society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0370-2774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1965.tb04644.x
Subject(s) - trap (plumbing) , mammal , index (typography) , line (geometry) , tracking (education) , geography , computer science , ecology , biology , meteorology , mathematics , sociology , pedagogy , geometry , world wide web
The use of the trap‐line in studying small mammal populations has been criticized but it is difficult to design anything so simple to operate and so suitable for naturalists who have little time to spare. The results reported here suggest that the method is quite capable of tracking broad changes of distribution in time and space.