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
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
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Apaloderma vittatum | 3 | 55.0 g insectivore |
Smithornis capensis | 1 | 23.2 g insectivore |
Andropadus milanjensis | 1 | 38.5 g |
Phyllastrephus cerviniventris | 2 | 27.0 g |
Alethe fuelleborni | 5 | 52.0 g insectivore |
Cercotrichas quadrivirgata | 1 | 26.1 g |
Pogonocichla stellata | 5 | 18.6 g insectivore-frugivore |
Terpsiphone viridis | 1 | 13.8 g insectivore |
Hypargos niveoguttatus | 1 | 14.6 g |
Mandingoa nitidula | 9 | 9.6 g granivore-insectivore |