A survey of terrestrial vertebrate species at the Lincoln University Living Laboratory.The Lincoln University Lincoln University. 1 At Jefferson City, Mo.; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; founded 1866 as Lincoln Institute. The school was established for the education of freed slaves by members of the 62d and 65th U.S. Colored Regiments. Living Laboratory is an approximately 2 hectare hectare (hĕk`târ, –tär), abbr. ha, unit of area in the metric system, equal to 10,000 sq m, or about 2.47 acres. heavily wooded area on the Lincoln University campus. The site history includes previous use for industrial development and a rock quarry that is now flooded. A city park, residential development, other Lincoln University property and a secondary roadway border the site. The goal for the Living Laboratory is to create an outdoor educational experience. As part of that goal, we have been conducting surveys for terrestrial vertebrate vertebrate, any animal having a backbone or spinal column. Verbrates can be traced back to the Silurian period. In the adults of nearly all forms the backbone consists of a series of vertebrae. All vertebrates belong to the subphylum Vertebrata of the phylum Chordata. species observed to be on the site since June 2004. Surveys have included direct and photographic observations as well as live trapping. The focal groups of organisms have been birds and mammals The class Mammalia (the Mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the Monotremes); and mammals which give live birth. The latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (the marsupials); and the placental mammals. to this point. Future surveys will focus more on reptile, amphibian amphibian, in zoology amphibian, in zoology, cold-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Amphibia. There are three living orders of amphibians: the frogs and toads (order Anura, or Salientia), the salamanders and newts (order Urodela, or Caudata), and the , fish and plant species. The preliminary results of this survey provide a list of species most likely to be found in a typical urban wooded area in central Missouri and those specifically located on the site. * Rangel, D. and M. Scott. Department of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Lincoln University. |
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