Osório Wind Farm
Basic information
Sample name: Osório Wind Farm

Reference: M. A. S. Barros, R. G. de Magalhäesa, and A. M. Rui. 2015. Species composition and mortality of bats at the Osório Wind Farm, southern Brazil. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 50(1):31-39 [ER 1213]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Rio Grande do Sul


Coordinate: 29° 57' 27" S, 50° 17' 30" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the municipality of Osório"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "areas that are mainly used as pasture for cattle and rice plantation. There are also small forest patches (capões) of exotic vegetation (mainly Eucalyptus), lagoons, marshes (banhados), and native fragments of restinga vegetation... In addition, the wind farm is very close to a rain forest area (Floresta Ombrófila Densa; Atlantic Forest biome)"

Methods
Life forms: bats

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: no design,road kill

Sample size: 324 individuals

Years: 2006 - 2009

Sampling comments: counts are of bats killed by 75 wind turbines at three nearby wind parks

Metadata
Sample number: 1752

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-09-12 12:29:58

Modified: 2015-09-12 07:17:36

Abundance distribution
9 species
2 singletons
total count 324
geometric series index: 13.6
Fisher's α: 1.715
geometric series k: 0.5028
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4052
Shannon's H: 0.9003
Good's u: 0.9938
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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