Small mammal abundance in NEON: Arielle Parsons’ paper in Mammalogy
Reliable estimates of small mammal abundances are important for understanding community interactions. While capture–recapture estimates of absolute abundance are preferred, indices of abundance continue to be widely used. Calibrating with absolute abundance can improve these indices, but their reliability across years, sites, or species is unclear. We used the US National Ecological Observatory Network capture–recapture data for 63 small mammal species over 46 sites from 2013 to 2019… [more]
Monitoring small mammal abundance using NEON data: are calibrated indices useful?
Arielle W Parsons, James S Clark, Roland Kays
Journal of Mammalogy, gyac096, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac096