Brazil field notes, v1503
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Mustanai, Meika A. 1993 journal 45 Aracruz - ES Bahia and Minas Gerais. It has small (around 100 ha) native forest patches interspersed with the eucalyptus, where its environmental center develops some programs, like the breeding and reintroduction of Callithrix geoffroyi, run by the biologist Sérgio Lucena Mendes, from Museu Mello Leitão in Santa Teresa - ES. I set up traps in two "reserves": M-7 and reserva da Grotá. The Fundação Biodiversitas did an inventory of the small mammals in the Aracruz reserves in July of 1992, as part of their general inventory for the entire Atlantic Forest. They reported Marmosops incanus only from the M-7 reserve. So I set up 30 stations along a trail there. Stations with traps, as usual: 1 Sherman + 1 Tomahawk on the ground and 1 Sherman on the tree. Reserva da Grotá, by their report also, had the highest diversity, and was also the only one where Proechimys was captured. So I set up 10 stations there. It hadn't started raining yet this year so the forest at both sites were quite dry. M-7 may not have a creek within it area, or it was some ways from the trail along which we worked. Reserva da Grotá is more humid, since it includes the some-