Small mammal surveys in Sumatra and Bangka islands, Indonesia (2009 & 2011)

This dataset corresponds to surveys carried out in Sumatra and Bangka islands, Indonesia, in June 2009 and May and August 2011 as part of Aude Verwilghen's PhD. It includes the location and description of the trap lines used to capture small mammals and the captures themselves. Specimens are deposited at the Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Population, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD, Montpellier, France - “CBGP - Small mammal Collection”, https://doi.org/10.15454/WWNUPO

Site codes

RRME = RA = Rama Rama Estate (Riau_2)
LIBE = LI = Libo Estate (Riau_1)
BPRE = PR = Bukit Perak Estate (Bangka_1)
BMSE = MS = Bukit Mas Estate (Bankga_2)

Capture codes

SkullMeasurements.pdf

Figure of skull measurements published in Verwilghen et al. 2015

Description of trap types, baits and coding.

This file is a table that describes the 34 'standard' traplines by which small mammal specimens have been captured. Some traplines can have  no capture. This is a point to consider when trapping success is computed joining the trapline table to the capture table. Those two tables can be joined using the field 'IDLine'. For more details about sampling design, trap types, distance between two traps, etc. please refer to the articles published using those data (see references on this web page).

LinesNonStandard.txt

This file is a table with two traplines, AD and AE, that have been mixed up. Captures have been collapsed in AD in the capture file. See the section about 'LinesStandard.txt'  above for column legends.

This file is a table that describes the 345 animals captured.  As a  table, it can be joined to the trapline table using the field 'IDline'.

Species identification, based on morphometrics and external morphology, was made using the following references: Musser et al. (1979), Musser and Newcomb (1983), Corbet and Hill (1992), Aplin et al. (2003), Wilson and Reeder (2005), Chaval (2011). Some species were identified using DNA barcoding, with species assignation using the RodentSEA reference database available at http//www.ceropath.org/barecoding_tool/rodentsea; (Clairon et al., 2010)). Nomenclature follows Wilson and Reeder (2005).

• Aplin, K.P., Brown, P.B., Jacob, J., Krebs, C.J. & Singleton, G.R. (2003). Field methods for rodent studies in Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research: Canberra, 223 p
• Chaval, Y. (2011). South East Asian Murines Field Guide. A compilation of documents for field identification. . Version 3. Document compiled for the Training Workshop "Rodent survey: from trapping to pathogen screening", 7-10/11/2011, Kasetart University, Thailand. CBGP: Montpellier, 205 p
• Clairon, N., Lepicard, D., Dumas, D., Chavernac, D., Dehne, G.A., Piry, S. et al. (2010). Rodent SEA: a web service for rodent species identification in South-East Asia. Ceropath, Available at: http://www.ceropath.org/barcoding_tool/rodentsea
• Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. (1992). The mammals of the Indomalayan Region : a systematic review. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 488 p
• Musser, G.G., Marshall, J.T. & Boeadi, J. (1979). Definition and Contents of the Sundaic Genus Maxomys (Rodentia, Muridae). Journal of Mammalogy, 60(3):592-606
• Musser, G.G. & Newcomb, C. (1983). Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174:327-598
• Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (2005). Mammals species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edn. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 2,142 pp

DNA_sequencing.txt

Table recording data on material taken for DNA sequencing and location.