Colleagues, As part of an effort to identify responses of small mammals to global change, we are seeking short- or long-term small mammal trapping/census records from sites in North America that you may be willing to share for a forthcoming study.
We are primarily interested in trap/census records of rodents that contain information on reproductive state of individuals from autopsies or external examinations (pregnant, lactating, mammae size, testes size and position, etc). Historic datasets of this mould are of particular interest, but all such datasets are of high potential value for our study. Field notes with comparable reproductive data (ie from collecting expeditions) are also of potential value. Records will be integrated with an extensive database of publicly-available data that our group has synthesized from historic (e.g., past censuses and museum specimens) and modern (e.g. LTER) sources. Thanks in advance (and please reply off-list), Bryan
