Changes in Trap Temperature as a Method to Determine Timing of Capture of Small Mammals.

ABSTRACT: Patterns of animal activity provide important insight into hypotheses in animal behavior, physiological ecology, behavioral ecology, as well as population and community ecology. Understanding patterns of animal activity in field settings is often complicated by the need for expensive equipment and time-intensive methods that limit data collection. Because animals must be active to be detected, the timing of detection (e.g., the timing of capture) may be a useful proxy for estimation of activity time. In this paper, we describe a new method for determining timing of capture for small mammals. In our method, two small temperature loggers are positioned in each trap so that one logger registers the internal temperature of a live-trap at set intervals while the other logger simultaneously reco

SUBMITTER: Orrock JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5085069 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature