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The Richness And Relative Abundance Of Small Mammals In Old Surface Coal-Mined Sites In Crawford And Cherokee Counties, Kansas, Fabio Giacomelli
The Richness And Relative Abundance Of Small Mammals In Old Surface Coal-Mined Sites In Crawford And Cherokee Counties, Kansas, Fabio Giacomelli
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Species richness and relative abundance (RA) of the small terrestrial mammals were accessed in 20 different unreclaimed old coal mined sites in Crawford and Cherokee counties, southeast Kansas in 2014. Lines of Victor™ wooden snap-traps were set in three habitat types in each area: grassy, brushy and forested during 3-days period in each of the four seasons.
Southeast Kansas was heavily surface-mined (strip-mined) between the 1930’s and the 1970’s and many of these sites were not reclaimed (restored to the appearance of its original landscape). This has resulted in many types of altered habitats in this region such as strip-pits …