A Field Trip for Applied biology: Mark-Recapture of White-footed Mice in a Local Woodlot

 

John Cummings and T.R. Kaisa

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2005, Volume 26

Abstract

Mark-recapture techniques were used to determine the size of a white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) population in a woodlot in Bowling Green, Ohio. Sherman live traps were used to capture the mice, which were then marked by attaching an ear tag. Population size estimates were obtained using a Lincoln-Peterson method, and a Jolly method.

Keywords:  mark-recapture, Lincolin-Peterson estimate, Jolly estimate, population estimate

Bowling Green State University, Ohio (2004)