Engare Ondare River
Basic information
Sample name: Engare Ondare River
Reference: L. M. Hardy and A. C. Crnkovic. 2006. Diet of amphibians and reptiles from the Engare Ondare river region of central Kenya, during the dry season. African Journal of Herpetology 55(2):143-159 [ER 236]
Geography
Country: Kenya
Coordinate: 0° 22' N, 37° 25' E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Geography comments: coordinate estimated from map in Hardy 1993
elevation 1120 - 1140 m according to Hardy 1993
elevation 1120 - 1140 m according to Hardy 1993
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Altered habitat: pasture
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 20.6
CMT: 17.1
MAP: 750.0
Habitat comments: "arid scrub dominated by Acacia forest" with intensive goat grazing in the area
precip 0.5 - 1 m; CMT and WMT based on climate station 63740 (Nairobi airport)
precip 0.5 - 1 m; CMT and WMT based on climate station 63740 (Nairobi airport)
Methods
Life forms: lizards,frogs
Sampling methods: no design,hand capture
Sample size: 177 individuals
Years: 1987
Sampling comments: from five separate localities mostly within a few km of each other
Metadata
Sample number: 481
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-19 15:07:37
Modified: 2014-04-26 08:29:53
Abundance distribution
18 species
3 singletons
total count 177
extrapolated richness: 28.2
Fisher's α: 5.010
geometric series k: 0.7926
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8413
Shannon's H: 2.2258
Good's u: 0.9833
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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