Document Type
Article
DOI
10.25778/gnwc-jv97
Abstract
Small mammals were surveyed using live and pitfall traps between the primary and secondary dunes at two locations on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay near the Atlantic Ocean: Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Captures were dominated by house mice (Mus musculus) in interdunal habitats with sparse grass, whereas white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) were found primarily in shrubby live-oak thickets on the tops of dunes. Hispid cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) were present only at Fort Story, and then only in patches of dense herbaceous vegetation just above the wrack line.
Recommended Citation
Rose, R. K. and J. L. Sweitzer. 2013. The Small Mammals of Two Dune Communities in Southeastern Virginia. Virginia Journal of Science 64 (3): 151-157.