Abundance, diversity, and community structure of ...
|Title||Abundance, diversity, and community structure of small
mammals in forest fragments in Prince Edward Island National
Park, Canada| |Journal||Canadian Journal of Zoology|
|Abstract||Anthropogenic activities in Prince Edward Island
(Canada) have created a mosaic of fragmented uneven-aged forests
and agricultural and pasture lands, as well as large amounts of
edge habitat. Although the mammalian fauna of the province is
largely composed of small mammals, no previous study has
investigated how they respond to habitat fragmentation. I
surveyed 14 forest fragments in Prince Edward Island National
Park to assess the effects of habitat fragmentation on the
abundance and diversity of small mammals. A total of 897 small
mammals from 11 different species were captured during 10 231
trap-nights. The most frequently captured species were the
eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus (53.5%)), and the deer mouse,
(Peromyscus maniculatus (24.9%)). Neither species richness,