pitfall trap

a trap (e.g. a jar sunk into the ground) into which mobile animals may fall and from which they are unable to escape.

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Performance of two arboreal pitfall trap designs in sampling cursorial spiders from tree trunks.

Vertically stratified arthropod diversity in a Florida upland hardwood forest

of Koolyanobbing (IBRA_COO), 29[degrees]50'59"S, 119[degrees]16'58"E, dry pitfall trap, 7 December 2010, R.

Systematics of the giant spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Gaius Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini): documenting an iconic lineage of the Western Australian inland arid zone

For winter season, the highest values of Shannon-Wiener's index were recorded for grassland (2.44 for pitfall trap and 2.38 for monolith) and lychee orchards (2.39 for pitfall trap and 2.11 for monolith), while the lowest values of Shannon-Wiener's index were found for barren (0.80 for pitfall trap and 0.39 for monolith) and rice-wheat crop land (1.22 for pitfall trap and 1.01 for monolith) (Table I).

Differential Impact of Different Land-Use Types on the Population Density and Community Assemblages of Edaphic Macroinvertebrates in District Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan

peruviensis in Peru is based on one immature female collected in November 2016 in a pitfall trap (Figure 1).

Rango de extension de la rata acuatica peruana Neusticomys peruviensis (Rodentia: Cricetidae) en Peru

Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants that have a pitfall trap, or a prey-trapping mouth which leads to a giant pitcher filled with digestive fluid.

Those Carnivorous Pitcher Plants!

Another individual was captured in a pitfall trap in March 2014 (Homan 2015).

Surveys of vertebrate fauna of the eumeralla section of the Great Otway National Park, Victoria, 2004-2015. 1. mammals

During the spring and summer seasons, we added pitfall trap arrays to our sampling design to better target shrews (Soricidae).

Small mammal communities in eastern redcedar forest

In order to characterize the differences in the spider community each pitfall trap was treated as an independent replicate and samples were pooled as either pre- or post-treatment and adjusted to per-trapping-week.

Short-term impacts of prescribed burning on the spider community (Order: Araneae) in a small Ohio grassland

The spectacular and unique pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) is our sole representative species belonging to the pitfall trap family.

Sundews, butterworts and bladderworts, oh my!--the carnivorous plants of New York

It is of an elephant pitfall trap, dug along a remote bush pathway.

From the editor

It was caught in 2010 in a pitfall trap in Umm Ghafa, Mezyad in Al Ain.

UAE countryside home to distinctive denizens

Soil fauna was sampled using the pitfall trap method during a seven-day period, from 22 to 29 August, 2013.

Land use intensification effects in soil arthropod community of an entisol in Pernambuco State, Brazil

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