Mangala Forest Reserve (pre-fire)
Basic information
Sample name: Mangala Forest Reserve (pre-fire)

Reference: C. Werema. 2015. Understorey bird abundance and diversity before and after a forest fire in Mangala Forest Reserve on the eastern slopes of the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania. Scopus 34:40-46 [ER 2208]
Geography
Country: Tanzania


Coordinate: 6° 58' 0" S, 37° 45' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: the entire reserve is 28.5 ha
elevation 420 to 640 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "forest" (presumably moist based on samples 1153 and 2241)

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 54 individuals

Years: 2010

Days: 3

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 45

Sampling comments: "In July 2010 an assessment... was undertaken... using mist netting... Fifteen mist nets, each 12 m long and 2.6 m high, with 4 shelves and a 16 mm mesh size, were set, from the edge towards the middle of the forest, for three consecutive days"

Metadata
Sample number: 2243

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-08-28 21:16:18

Modified: 2016-08-28 11:20:17

Abundance distribution
22 species
13 singletons
total count 54
extrapolated richness: 75.6
Fisher's α: 13.840
geometric series k: 0.8921
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9071
Shannon's H: 2.7205
Good's u: 0.7606
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Aplopelia larvata1 granivore-frugivore
Apaloderma vittatum155.0 g insectivore
Ispidina picta13.8 g piscivore
Smithornis capensis123.2 g insectivore
Illadopsis rufipennis122.2 g insectivore
Arizelocichla masukuensis1 frugivore-insectivore
"Andropadus masukuensis"
Andropadus milanjensis438.5 g
Andropadus virens115.0 g frugivore-granivore
Phyllastrephus cerviniventris127.0 g
Phyllastrephus flavostriatus431.8 g insectivore-frugivore
Alethe fuelleborni752.0 g insectivore
Cossypha heuglini137.5 g omnivore
Pogonocichla stellata218.6 g insectivore-frugivore
Sheppardia sharpei114.7 g insectivore
Zoothera gurneyi57.8 g insectivore-frugivore
Batis mixta112.2 g insectivore
Terpsiphone viridis113.8 g insectivore
Trochocercus cyanomelas210.2 g insectivore
Dicrurus ludwigii1 insectivore
Cyanomitra olivacea32.8 g insectivore-nectarivore
"Nectarinia olivacea"
Ploceus 'bicolor'1
Hypargos niveoguttatus314.6 g