Mount Nimba (wet season)
Basic information
Sample name: Mount Nimba (wet season)
Reference: C. Denys, B. Kadjo, A. D. Missoup, A. Monadjem, and V. Aniskine. 2013. New records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and karyotypes from Guinean Mount Nimba (West Africa). Italian Journal of Zoology 80(2):279-290 [ER 423]
Geography
Country: Equatorial Guinea
Coordinate: 7.60° N, -8.39° W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate based on Mount Nimba
four sites: "Seringbara (550–620 m asl)... Gbie (540–620 m asl)... Societe des Mines de Fer de Guinea (SMFG) mining concession (1498 m asl)... between the Gouan and Zougue rivers at an intermediate altitude (800–1200 m asl)" (altitude is midpoint)
four sites: "Seringbara (550–620 m asl)... Gbie (540–620 m asl)... Societe des Mines de Fer de Guinea (SMFG) mining concession (1498 m asl)... between the Gouan and Zougue rivers at an intermediate altitude (800–1200 m asl)" (altitude is midpoint)
Environment
Habitat: montane grassland
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 27.9
CMT: 24.8
MAP: 3743.0
Habitat comments: Seringbara is a "lowland forest" and the other sites are apparently "montane grasslands"
climate data based on station 64910 (Douala airport)
climate data based on station 64910 (Douala airport)
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sampling methods: no design,mist nets
Sample size: 69 individuals
Years: 2008
Seasons: wet or monsoon
Nets or traps: 6
Net or trap nights: 41
Sampling comments: six 12-m mist nets used over 41 net nights
all bats were collected and reposited in the MNHN
all bats were collected and reposited in the MNHN
Metadata
Sample number: 770
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-10 14:10:54
Modified: 2020-05-29 10:14:12
Abundance distribution
12 species
4 singletons
total count 69
geometric series index: 21.1
Fisher's α: 4.198
geometric series k: 0.7689
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8574
Shannon's H: 2.1556
Good's u: 0.9420
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Epomops buettikoferi | 10 | 174 g |
| Hypsignathus monstrosus | 1 | 327 g frugivore |
| Lissonycteris angolensis smithii | 4 | 93.5 g frugivore |
| Megaloglossus woermanni | 1 | 10.7 g nectarivore |
| Micropteropus pusillus | 8 | 26.1 g frugivore |
| Myonycteris torquata | 6 | 37.9 g frugivore |
| Nanonycteris veldkampii | 18 | 22.0 g frugivore |
| Rousettus aegyptiacus unicolor | 6 | 129 g frugivore |
| Rhinolophus guineensis | 8 | |
| Nycteris intermedia | 1 | |
| Hipposideros cf. ruber | 5 | 9.6 g insectivore |
| Mops thersites | 1 |