Mangala Forest Reserve (eight months post-fire)
Basic information
Sample name: Mangala Forest Reserve (eight months post-fire)

Reference: C. Werema. 2015. Understorey bird abundance and diversity before and after a forest fire in Mangala Forest Reserve on the eastern slopes of the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania. Scopus 34:40-46 [ER 2208]
Geography
Country: Tanzania


Coordinate: 6° 58' 0" S, 37° 45' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: the entire reserve is 28.5 ha
elevation 420 to 640 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: recent fire

Habitat comments: "forest" (presumably moist based on samples 1153 and 2241)

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 34 individuals

Years: 2011

Days: 3

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 45

Sampling comments: "assessment... was undertaken... using mist netting... Fifteen mist nets, each 12 m long and 2.6 m high, with 4 shelves and a 16 mm mesh size, were set, from the edge towards the middle of the forest, for three consecutive days... eight months post-fire (in July 2011)"

Metadata
Sample number: 2246

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-08-28 21:22:44

Modified: 2016-08-28 11:22:44

Abundance distribution
11 species
5 singletons
total count 34
geometric series index: 27.2
Fisher's α: 5.642
geometric series k: 0.8027
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8449
Shannon's H: 2.0970
Good's u: 0.8547
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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