St. Catherine's Monastery (fall)
Basic information
Sample name: St. Catherine's Monastery (fall)

Reference: U. N. Safriel and D. Lavee. 1988. Weight changes of cross-desert migrants at an oasis: do energetic considerations alone determine the length of stopover?. Oecologia 76(4):611-619 [ER 725]
Geography
Country: Egypt


Coordinate: 28° 33' 37" N, 33° 59' 25" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 20.0

CMT: 12.8

MAP: 23.0

Habitat comments: "bare, rugged and precipitous slopes, and the typical desert vegetation is concentrated along gullies and ravines"
MAP is the mean for two years; CMT and WMT are based on ranges of daily ranges

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sampling methods: mist nets

Sample size: 1711 individuals

Years: 1970 - 1972

Days: 206

Sampling comments: there was a "mean of 290 m per netting day" but the actual number of nets is unclear

Metadata
Sample number: 1049

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-08-17 18:57:02

Modified: 2014-08-17 08:57:02

Abundance distribution
38 species
5 singletons
total count 1711
geometric series index: 53.2
Fisher's α: 6.885
geometric series k: 0.8468
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8686
Shannon's H: 2.4982
Good's u: 0.9971
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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