Mokolodi Nature Reserve
Basic information
Sample name: Mokolodi Nature Reserve

Reference: E. R. Saetnan and C. Skarpe. 2006. The effect of ungulate grazing on a small mammal community in southeastern Botswana. African Zoology 41(1):9-16 [ER 858]
Geography
Country: Botswana


Coordinate: 24° 45' S, 25° 55' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "15 km southwest of the capital Gaborone"
altitude 1020 to 1306 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: nature reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 22.0

MAP: 538.0

Habitat comments: "mixed shrub and tree savanna... dominated by Acacia tortilis"; the area was a cattle ranch through 1986
MAP stated in text; MAT is for Gaborone and is from Titus et al. (2012)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 6

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 252 individuals

Years: 1998

Days: 15

Nets or traps: 384

Net or trap nights: 5760

Sampling comments: "three pairs of 2.25 ha (150 × 150 m) exclosure and control plots, with 30 m between the exclosure and control plots in each pair, and 1–2 km between each pair... Small mammals were trapped in an 80 × 80 m square in the northwestern corner of every control and exclosure plot" using one medium and one large peanut butter, rolled oats, dried fruit and bacon fat-baited Sherman trap at each station; there were 64 stations per plot

Metadata
Sample number: 1223

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-16 11:44:36

Modified: 2015-10-04 10:29:25

Abundance distribution
12 species
4 singletons
total count 252
geometric series index: 20.9
Fisher's α: 2.623
geometric series k: 0.6539
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7255
Shannon's H: 1.6088
Good's u: 0.9842
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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