Small mammal monitoring at Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island

• Main Author: Josée Lefebvre, Canadian Wildlife Service
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2015
• Subjects: Abundance; Eastwind Lake; Ellesmere Island; Eureka; Fosheim Peninsula; Lemmings; Mammals; Small mammals; International Polar Year-Arctic Wildlife Observatories Linking Vulnerable EcoSystems; Arctic; Burrows; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/733; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=733

We monitor lemming abundance using four methods. (1) Dead trapping using snap-traps at 2 sites in early August; we cumulate 709 trap-nights at each site by trapping during 3 days (2007-2009). (2) Survey of lemming winter nests after snow-melt in late June using the line transect method (2007-2008). (3) Survey of lemming burrows within an area of 1 ha in late July (2008 only). (4) Survey of lemming runways using the line transect method in late July (2008 only). : Purpose: Monitoring of small mammal abundance : Summary: Not Applicable