Majawanga (bush site 1)
Basic information
Sample name: Majawanga (bush site 1)
Reference: S. Tind Nielsen. 2007. Deforestation and biodiversity: effects of bushland cultivation on dung beetles in semi-arid Tanzania. Biodiversity and Conservation 16:2753-2769 [ER 364]
Geography
Country: Tanzania
Coordinate: 6° 5' S, 36° 50' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "in the Morogoro Region"
altitude 1350 to 1400 m
altitude 1350 to 1400 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Altered habitat: fragment
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 24.9
CMT: 20.0
MAP: 420.0
Habitat comments: "semi-arid" with "a long dry season from April to early December" and MAP of 390 to 650 mm; the area was originally "more or less continuous Acacia woodland" and is now "cleared for agriculture" but the site is a small fragment of bushland (5 to 15 ha in area)
CMT and WMT based on climate station 63862 (Dodoma), which has similar MAP
CMT and WMT based on climate station 63862 (Dodoma), which has similar MAP
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 1
Site length: 32
Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps
Sample size: 1844 individuals
Years: 2004
Days: 4
Nets or traps: 10
Net or trap nights: 40
Sampling comments: two rows of five dung-baited pitfall traps placed 4 m apart sampled over one four-day period in March
Metadata
Sample number: 694
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-01 14:28:20
Modified: 2015-10-02 10:54:38
Abundance distribution
58 species
13 singletons
total count 1844
extrapolated richness: 86.6
Fisher's α: 11.387
geometric series k: 0.9013
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9080
Shannon's H: 2.9316
Good's u: 0.9930
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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