An evaluation of pipe traps for the capture of small arboreal mammals
Lee Harrison A B F , Kylie Soanes C and Rodney van der Ree A D E
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A Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, South Yarra, Vic. 3141, Australia.
B Current address: City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia.
C School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.
D School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia.
E Ecology and Infrastructure International, PO Box 6031, Wantirna, Vic. 3152, Australia.
F Corresponding author. Email: leejh@unimelb.edu.au
Australian Mammalogy 40(2) 301-303 https://doi.org/10.1071/AM17014
Submitted: 14 March 2017 Accepted: 24 July 2017 Published: 24 August 2017
Abstract
Optimal wildlife survey techniques should maximise detectability or capture rates of target species and minimise potential harm to animals. We compared the effectiveness of Elliott and PVC pipe traps for the capture of small arboreal mammals in the Victorian Central Highlands and found that pipe traps were less effective at capturing small arboreal mammals than Elliott traps.
Additional keywords: Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, Leadbeater’s possum, Petauridae, trapping.
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