Report submitted to FWR instructors Douglas B. Ransome and Robert Gunn, and Robyn Wark, Ecosystem Planner for the City of Burnaby. Submitted by Cameron Bennett and Laura Wenn. Small mammal abundance and diversity was surveyed along the Still Creek corridor in Burnaby and Vancouver, British Columbia from September 2005 to April 2006. It is important to monitor biodiversity in urban centers because habitat alteration and fragmentation is having a significant negative impact on urban biodiversity. This study was conducted to assess differences in biodiversity among 3 types of corridor habitat: 2 small corridor widths (2-5 m) with high abundance of invasive plants, 2 wide corridors (200 - 300 m) with high proportion of native plants, and 2 corridors of intermediate widths (10 - 30 m) with a mixture of native and non-native vegetation.
