Small mammal activity patterns
Date
1971
Authors
Lipscomb, James Frederick, author
Steinhoff, Harold W., advisor
Hein, Dale A., committee member
Wunder, Bruce A., committee member
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Abstract
Multiple regression techniques were used to derive a 14-term representation of the effects of temperature, time of day, number of days since baiting, wind velocity, and time of year on small mammal activity. This representation described 42 percent of the variability in activity observed for 837 hours during the summer of 1965. Trends in activity were found to agree with trends observed in 1964. Other factors hypothesized to affect small mammal activity include activities of predators, parental care and breeding behavior, precipitation, and residual effects of previous environmental conditions. Extreme weather conditions probably affect activity enough to bias small mammal trapping experiments.
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Print version deaccessioned 2021.
Print version deaccessioned 2021.
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Subject
Mammals -- Geographical distribution
Mammals -- Colorado
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Meiman, James R. Little South Poudre Watershed and Pingree Park Campus. Colorado State University, College of Forestry and Natural Resources (1971). http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70382