Zaraninge Forest (dry season)
Basic information
Sample name: Zaraninge Forest (dry season)

Reference: H. Y. D. Kiwia. 2006. Species richness and abundance estimates of small mammals in Zaraninge Coastal Forest in Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science 32(2):51-60 [ER 843]
Geography
Country: Tanzania



Coordinate: 6° 8' 30" S, 38° 38' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: coordinate based on midpoint of ranges stated in text
elevation 0 to 300 m

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Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1150.0

Habitat comments: "Zaraninge Dry Evergreen Coastal Forest" with "short rains... between October and December and long rains... between April and June"; MAP 900 to 1400
commercially logged "between 1950s and 1980s" but logging ended in 1985

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: line transect,Sherman traps,snap traps,Tomahawk traps

Sample size: 159 individuals

Years: 1994 - 1996

Days: 57

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 121

Net or trap nights: 6897

Sampling comments: ten "1 m line transects" each sampled with 62 snap traps, 40 Sherman traps, and 18 to 20 Tomahawk traps; stations were separated by 5 m and included one trap each, and trapping was done over 57 days

Metadata
Sample number: 1194

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-13 16:34:43

Modified: 2015-02-13 09:06:47

Abundance distribution
7 species
2 singletons
total count 159
geometric series index: 10.2
Fisher's α: 1.497
geometric series k: 0.4950
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7298
Shannon's H: 1.5015
Good's u: 0.9874
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