Lake Nakuru National Park
Basic information
Sample name: Lake Nakuru National Park
Reference: T. G. Schwan. 1986. Seasonal abundance of fleas (Siphonaptera) on grassland rodents in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, and potential for plague transmission. Bulletin of Entomological Research 76(4):633-648 [ER 848]
Geography
Country: Kenya
Coordinate: 0° 23' S, 36° 2' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 18.8
CMT: 15.9
MAP: 841.0
Habitat comments: "grassland"
Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,Sherman traps
Sample size: 935 captures or sightings
Years: 1975, 1976
Days: 110
Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon
Nets or traps: 60
Net or trap nights: 5923
Sampling comments: 60 rolled oats-baited Sherman traps in a 6 x 10 grid spaced 10 m apart (total area 4500 m2) plus a 3 x 10 grid control plot sampled less frequently; as few as 52 traps were in use at a time; days of trapping and trap-nights are reported in text
Metadata
Sample number: 1200
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-13 21:29:59
Modified: 2015-02-13 10:29:59
Abundance distribution
11 species
2 singletons
total count 935
extrapolated richness: 14.8
Fisher's α: 1.751
geometric series k: 0.5201
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4376
Shannon's H: 1.0116
Good's u: 0.9979
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Register
| Arvicanthis niloticus | 690 | 90.6 g |
| Otomys angoniensis | 101 | |
| Mus minutoides | 55 | |
| Mus triton | 29 | |
| Crocidura sp. | 24 | |
| Rhabdomys pumilio | 15 | 42.0 g herbivore |
| Lophuromys flavopunctatus | 12 | |
| Dendromus mesomelas | 4 | |
| Mastomys natalensis | 3 | |
| "Praomys natalensis" | ||
| Lemniscomys striatus | 1 | |
| Tachyoryctes splendens | 1 | |