R'milia
Basic information
Sample name: R'milia

Reference: E. Fichet-Calvet, I. Jomaa, R. Ben Ismail, and R. W. Ashford. 2003. Leishmania major infection in the fat sand rat Psammomys obesus in Tunisia: interaction of host and parasite populations. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 97(6):593-603 [ER 868]
Geography
Country: Tunisia


Coordinate: 35° 46' N, 9° 36' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "40km south of Sidi Bouzid"

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 360.0

Habitat comments: "the edge of a sebcha” in an area of "succulent halophytic steppe... traversed by earth bunds some 2 m high, constructed for flood control, between which were cultivated plots of wheat, separated by bands of natural vegetation"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: line transect,cage traps

Sample size: 608 individuals

Years: 1995 - 1997

Sampling comments: an unclear number of "pincer traps" and "wire-mesh cage traps" arrayed in trap lines of unclear spacing
all P. obesus individuals were killed

Metadata
Sample number: 1242

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-17 10:00:07

Modified: 2024-10-22 06:12:56

Abundance distribution
3 species
1 singleton
total count 608
geometric series index: 4.9
Fisher's α: 0.411
geometric series k: 0.0408
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.0244
Shannon's H: 0.0750
Good's u: 0.9984
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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