Kottawa Forest Reserve
Basic information
Sample name: Kottawa Forest Reserve

Sample aka: Yakkalamulla

Reference: S. N. Gamage, A. Gunawardena, D. K. Weerakoon, and W. K. D. D. Liyanage. 2008. A comparative study of the leaf litter herpetofauna and physical parameters in different agro-ecosystems (tea, rubber and oil palm) and natural rain forest in the south-western wet-zone of Sri Lanka. Journal of Environmental Research And Development 2(3):285-294 [ER 223]
Geography
Country: Sri Lanka


County: Galle District


Coordinate: 6° 6' N, 80° 20' E
Geography comments: coordinate based on Yakkalamulla
elevation 30 - 100 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.8

CMT: 26.6

MAP: 2510.0

Habitat comments: MAP stated in text; CMT and WMT based on station 43497 (Ambalantota)

Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,caecilians,frogs

Sites: 18

Site area: 0.115

Sampling methods: hand capture

Sample size: 161 individuals

Years: 2003

Sampling comments: 18 8 x 8 m quadrats
all specimens were released

Metadata
Sample number: 459

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-18 11:15:28

Modified: 2014-04-26 10:18:32

Abundance distribution
20 species
4 singletons
total count 161
geometric series index: 31.3
Fisher's α: 6.018
geometric series k: 0.8376
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9062
Shannon's H: 2.5885
Good's u: 0.9754
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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