Shai Hills North
Basic information
Sample name: Shai Hills North
Reference: J. Decher. 1997. Bat community patterns on the Accra Plains of Ghana, West Africa. Zeitschrift für Såugetierkunde 62(3):129-142 [ER 1227]
Geography
Country: Ghana
Coordinate: 5° 57' N, 0° 4' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: coordinate based on Shai Hills
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "a mosaic of Veuveria-Borassus grassland and Zanthoxylon-Capparis thickets"
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sampling methods: no design,mist nets
Sample size: 71 individuals
Years: 1991, 1992
Days: 6
Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon
Net or trap nights: 26
Sampling comments: nets were set "once each during the dry and early rainy season" for a total of 6 nights and 4.4 net units, apparently meaning 6 x 4.4 = 26 net nights
Metadata
Sample number: 1767
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-09-19 12:33:50
Modified: 2020-05-29 10:28:33
Abundance distribution
16 species
3 singletons
total count 71
extrapolated richness: 26.9
Fisher's α: 6.430
geometric series k: 0.8473
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9024
Shannon's H: 2.5189
Good's u: 0.9589
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Micropteropus pusillus | 9 | 26.1 g frugivore |
| Laephotis capensis | 1 | |
| "Eptesicus capensis" | ||
| Neoromicia guineensis | 2 | |
| "Eptesicus guineensis" | ||
| Pseudoromicia rendalli | 3 | |
| "Eptesicus rendalli" | ||
| Glauconycteris variegata | 2 | 10.3 g insectivore |
| Hipposideros beatus | 12 | |
| Hipposideros commersoni | 5 | 102 g insectivore |
| Hipposideros ruber | 3 | 9.6 g insectivore |
| Lavia frons | 6 | 24.1 g insectivore |
| Nycteris hispida | 5 | 6.0 g insectivore |
| Nycticeinops schlieffeni | 1 | 8.0 g |
| Pipistrellus sp. | 1 | |
| "Pipistrellus aegyptiacus": apparently a synonym of P. kuhlii, which is not present in West Africa | ||
| Pipistrellus nanulus | 5 | 3.5 g insectivore |
| Rhinolophus landeri | 2 | 9.2 g insectivore |
| Scotoecus albofuscus | 4 | |
| Scotophilus viridis nigritellus | 10 | 18.0 g insectivore |