Kisumu District
Basic information
Sample name: Kisumu District

Reference: L. Vignoli, F. Pau, L. Luiselli, and G. M. Carpaneto. 2009. Co-occurrence patterns of five species of anurans at a pond network in Victoria Lake, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 48:275-279 [ER 260]
Geography
Country: Kenya


Coordinate: 0° 2' S, 34° 2' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: coordinate based on ranges stated in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical wetland

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: water edge

MAT: 23.5

MAP: 1311.0

Habitat comments: "natural swamps... largely altered for subsistence agriculture and livestock grazing. Vegetation consisted of a narrow coastal belt with papyrus and marsh grasses, and extensive cultivated fields just behind"
climate based on station 63708 (Kisumu) and is based on Blanford et al. (2013, Scientific Reports)

Methods
Life forms: frogs

Sites: 15

Sampling methods: timed,visual

Sample size: 195 individuals

Sampling comments: visual encounter surveys of frogs in 15 ponds

Metadata
Sample number: 526

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-22 12:10:39

Modified: 2014-04-26 04:01:24

Abundance distribution
7 species
2 singletons
total count 195
extrapolated richness: 10.2
Fisher's α: 1.420
geometric series k: 0.4870
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7463
Shannon's H: 1.5136
Good's u: 0.9897
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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