Bevia (forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Bevia (forest)
Reference: D. M. Scott, D. Brown, S. Mahood, B. Denton, A. Silburn, and F. Rakotondraparany. 2006. The impacts of forest clearance on lizard, small mammal and bird communities in the arid spiny forest, southern Madagascar. Biological Conservation 127(1):72-87 [ER 257]
Geography
Country: Madagascar
Coordinate: 24° 50' S, 46° 27' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: altitude 0 to 100 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: grazing,selective logging
WMT: 27.0
CMT: 22.5
MAP: 700.0
Habitat comments: "spiny forest" with mostly low-level grazing and wood cutting
CMT min/max 15/30, WMT min/max 21/33
precip "less than 700 mm"
CMT min/max 15/30, WMT min/max 21/33
precip "less than 700 mm"
Methods
Life forms: lizards
Sampling methods: timed,drift fences,pitfall traps,visual
Sample size: 198 individuals
Years: 2003
Sampling comments: "drift lines with pitfall trapping and time-constrained searches"
Metadata
Sample number: 522
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-22 11:39:39
Modified: 2014-03-22 00:42:32
Abundance distribution
13 species
3 singletons
total count 198
geometric series index: 19.4
Fisher's α: 3.121
geometric series k: 0.6941
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7604
Shannon's H: 1.8235
Good's u: 0.9848
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