Sam Village (barren dunes)
Basic information
Sample name: Sam Village (barren dunes)
Reference: I. Agarwal, S. P. Goyal, and Q. Qureshi. 2015. Lizards of the Thar Desert - Resource partitioning and community composition. Journal of Arid Environments 118:58-64 [ER 1144]
Geography
Country: India
State: Rajasthan
Coordinate: 26.872499° N, 70.5056° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "around Sam village... close to the northern boundary of the Desert National Park, in Jaisalmer District"
elevation 190 to 290 m
elevation 190 to 290 m
Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 33.7
CMT: 15.8
MAP: 164.0
Habitat comments: "Average minimum and maximum temperatures are 7.9 C and 23.6 C in January, to 25.8 C and 41.6 C in May... Barren dunes are characterized by loose, sandy soil (>95% sand) and very low total vegetation cover (<2%)"
Methods
Life forms: lizards
Sites: 3
Site area: 3
Sampling methods: quadrat,visual
Sample size: 62 captures or sightings
Sampling comments: three grids "subdivided into 16 plots of 25 m 25 m... The grids were sampled for lizards in the form of an area constrained visual encounter survey"
Metadata
Sample number: 1669
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-07-03 11:03:47
Modified: 2015-07-03 01:03:47
Abundance distribution
5 species
0 singletons
total count 62
extrapolated richness: 5.9
Fisher's α: 1.282
geometric series k: 0.5623
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6764
Shannon's H: 1.3352
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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