Chebera Churchura National Park (agricultural field)
Basic information
Sample name: Chebera Churchura National Park (agricultural field)

Reference: D. Datiko and A. Bekele. 2014. Habitat association and distribution of rodents and insectivores in Chebera Churchura National Park, Ethiopia. Tropical Ecology 55(2):221-229 [ER 1688]
Geography
Country: Ethiopia


Coordinate: 7° 2' N, 36° 42' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in the text
altitude 550 to 1700 m (range too large for a midpoint to be meaningful)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: cropland

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "The people practice traditional agricultural system and cultivate cereals, coffee and root crops around the Park... The mean annual rainfall in the study area varies from 1000 to 3500 mm, and is unimodal between April and August"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 2

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 226 individuals

Years: 2010, 2011

Days: 8

Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 98

Net or trap nights: 784

Sampling comments: "two different girds [sic]... were used in a randomly selected site. All of the girds were surveyed twice during the dry and wet seasons. A permanent 4900 m2 (70 m x 70 m) live trapping grid was established... Within each grid, 7 rows by 7 columns of live trapping lines were established during both seasons. A total of 49 Sherman live traps were set per grid at 10 m intervals between points during both seasons. The traps were baited with peanut butter and crushed maize"

Metadata
Sample number: 1878

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-02 17:26:52

Modified: 2020-05-29 10:18:26

Abundance distribution
12 species
2 singletons
total count 226
geometric series index: 16.4
Fisher's α: 2.704
geometric series k: 0.6663
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7976
Shannon's H: 1.9421
Good's u: 0.9912
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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