Date of Award:

5-1-1965

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Biology

Department name when degree awarded

Zoology

Committee Chair(s)

Keith L. Dixon

Committee

Keith L. Dixon

Abstract

Since most small mammals are nocturnal or secretive in their habits, the use of indirect methods, such as live trapping, has been necessary to study their activities. Given a network of traps, the assumption basic to all capture-mark-recapture studies is that the traps do not markedly interfere with the normal activities of the animal. An important corollary would be that the frequency of capture in any area reflects the intensity of use of that area by the animal. Some workers have obtained results which cast doubt on the validity of these assumptions (Hayne, 1949), yet other studies support their worth (Brant, 1962).

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