MicromAsia: small mammal surveys in Western China and Kyrgyzstan (1994-2014)

• Main Authors: Patrick Giraudoux, Francis Raoul, Jean-Pierre Quéré, Dominique Rieffel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Alticola argentatus; Allactaga sibirica; Anourosorex squamipes; Apodemus agrarius; Apodemus ilex; Apodemus draco; Apodemus latronum; Apodemus peninsulae; Apodemus; Apodemus uralensis; Chodsigoa hypsibia; Cricetulus eversmani; Cricetulus kamensis; Cricetulus longicaudatus; Cricetulus migratorius; Dipus sagitta; Ellobius tancrei; Eozapus setchuanus; Eothenomys; Meriones meridianus; Meriones tamariscinus; Microtus agrestis; Microtus gregalis; Microtus irene; Microtus leucurus; Microtus limnophilus; Micromys minutus; Microtus obscurus; Microtus oeconomus; Microtus; Mus musculus musculus; Myodes centralis; Myospalax fontanierii; Myodes rufocanus; Myodes rutilus; Neomys fodiens; Niviventer; Ochotona cansus; Ochotona curzionae; Ochotona dauurica; Ochotona sp; Ochotona thibetana; Rattus norvegicus; Rattus; Rattus tanezumi; Sciurus vulgaris; Sicista concolor; Sicista napaea; Sicista tianshanica; Sorex asper; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7614879; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7614879

This dataset corresponds to surveys carried out in Asia (Western China and Kyrgyzstan) from May 1994 to August 2014, as part of Patrick Giraudoux and his crew's research expeditions. It includes: Traplines set up and small mammal captured. The corresponding collection of skulls, specimens and tissues has been donated to the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris since the 22nd of November 2022. Activity index transect walked to provide abundance estimates over a larger range than possible using trapping methods Miscellaneous supplementary files and trapline photos. Main files Traplines.txt This file is a table that describes the 787 traplines or trap clusters or circumstances 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). nameStudysite, name of the survey site country, country ISO code countryName, country name province, province name idLine, trapline ID code: digits #1-2 location ID, digits #3-4 year, digits #5-6 month, digits #7-8 line number. The two latter digits can be coded on numbers 01, 02, 03. or on letters AA, AB, AC,. sLongitude, longitude of the trapline beginning (for surveys carried out before 1998 included, GPS receivers were not available: geographical coordinates are those of the nearest village, whose name is given in the field 'nameStudysite', and the position of trapline is given relative to this village (see field 'emplacementMethod' = CoordCloserVillage and 'distVillage' and 'azimuthVillage') sLatitude, latitude of the trapline beginning (for surveys carried out before 1998 included, GPS receivers were not available: geographical coordinates are those of the nearest village, whose name is given in the field ...