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Desert Ecology Plot Network: Mammal Abundance Plot-data, Simpson Desert, Western Queensland, 1990+

Citation: Wardle, G; Dickman, C (): Desert Ecology Plot Network: Mammal Abundance Plot-data, Simpson Desert, Western Queensland, 1990+. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern6.196.8/html

Metadata

Entity Description

Name: derg_small_mammal_trapping_data_1990+_p901t1206.csv

Attribute Information

year

Name: year

Definition: Year of survey

Measurement Type: dateTime

Measurement Domain

Format: YYYY

month_year

Name: month_year

Definition: Month and year of survey identifier

Measurement Type: dateTime

Measurement Domain

Format: Mmm.YY

site_name

Name: site_name

Definition: Name of site

Measurement Type: nominal

Measurement Domain

Text Domain

Definition: Character

site_code

Name: site_code

Definition: Site level code

Measurement Type: nominal

Measurement Domain

Text Domain

Definition: Character

site_grid

Name: site_grid

Definition: Site and trapping grid code

Measurement Type: nominal

Measurement Domain

Text Domain

Definition: Character

trip_no

Name: trip_no

Definition: Arbitrary trip identifier

Measurement Type: ordinal

Measurement Domain

Text Domain

Definition: Character

nights

Name: nights

Definition: Number of nights plot is open

Measurement Type: ratio

Measurement Domain

Standard Unit: number

Number Type: whole

no_traps

Name: no_traps

Definition: Number of traps opened per plot (<= 36)

Measurement Type: ratio

Measurement Domain

Standard Unit: number

Number Type: whole

total_trap_nights

Name: total_trap_nights

Definition: Number of nights grids were opened x number of traps

Measurement Type: ratio

Measurement Domain

Standard Unit: number

Number Type: whole

species

Name: species

Definition: Species caught (species name - binomial). If no captures were recorded on a grid then the words “No Captures” are entered in “species” and SiteGrid is recorded

Measurement Type: nominal

Measurement Domain

Text Domain

Definition: Character

recapt_same_trip

Name: recapt_same_trip

Definition: Should be NA. NA means new animal i.e. Not a recapture on the same sampling period

Measurement Type: nominal

Measurement Domain

Text Domain

Definition: Character

captures

Name: captures

Definition: Total captures over number of nights specified in nights column. If there were nil captures on a grid, the record grid is recorded (in the trap column), and 'No captures' is recorded in the fauna_descriptor column.

Measurement Type: ratio

Measurement Domain

Standard Unit: number

Number Type: whole

captures_100tn

Name: captures_100tn

Definition: Captures standardised for unequal trapping effort. captures/100 trap nights = captures/(number pitfalls (usually 36)*nights opened (usually 3))*100

Measurement Type: ratio

Measurement Domain

Standard Unit: number

Number Type: real

family

Name: family

Definition: Mammal family

Measurement Type: nominal

Measurement Domain

Text Domain

Definition: Character

Number Of Records: 3976

Physical Structure Description

Object Name: derg_small_mammal_trapping_data_1990+_p901t1206.csv

Size: 413020 byte

Text Format

Number of Header Lines: 1

Record Delimiter: #x0A

Attribute Orientation: column

Simple Delimited

Field Delimiter: ,

Distribution

Online

URL: ltern6.230.1

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