Simpson Desert National Park September 2009 Reptile

Brief description

This dataset contains Simpson Desert Reptile data collected between the 26 and 29 September 2009 and documents reptiles trapped at 7 site grids within the Simpson Desert National Park and includes: species of mammal trapped, Size of the mammal, sex, reproductive condition, family and researcher comment information.

This following data is collected:
- Year
- Simpson Desert National Park Mammal Identifier (ID1)
- Year
- Date of Survey (DateOfSurvey)
- Month year (MonthYear)
- Site grid (SiteGrid)
- Grid
- Trap
- Species
- Size of reptile (Mass)
- Snout vent length (SVL)
- Total length of reptile (TotalLength)
- Jaw length of reptile (JawLength)
- Tail breaks (TailBreaks)
- Site Name (SiteName)
- Site Code (SiteCode)
- Family

Reptiles were captured by hand and using the following traps:
- Pitfall
- Bucket
- Tube

This dataset is stored within a Microsoft Access database and is approximately 50MB and growing.

This collection of this data was funded by Australian Research Council.