Atherton Tableland
Basic information
Sample name: Atherton Tableland

Reference: S. G. W. Laurance, D. Jones, D. Westcott, A. Mckeown, G. Harrington, and D. W. Hilbert. 2013. Habitat fragmentation and ecological traits influence the prevalence of avian blood parasites in a tropical rainforest landscape. PLOS One 8(10):e76227 [ER 731]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Queensland


Coordinate: 17° 21' S, 145° 35' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: sites are shown on a map as either between or east of Malanda and Tarzali (coordinate based on Malanda Falls)
elevation 600 to 900 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 29.0

CMT: 16.0

MAP: 2500.0

Habitat comments: "tropical rainforest classified structurally as complex mesophyll vine forest"
combination of three forest fragments "of 20, 39 and 85 ha in area" that have been "isolated for ~50 years" plus three "continuous forest sites"

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sites: 6

Sampling methods: mist nets

Sample size: 299 individuals

Days: 12

Sampling comments: three habitat fragments and three sites in continuous forest
"Each site was netted for two consecutive days" in sequence
number and size of nets is not indicated

Metadata
Sample number: 1058

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-08-20 20:09:54

Modified: 2015-02-23 23:53:22

Abundance distribution
28 species
7 singletons
total count 299
geometric series index: 46.0
Fisher's α: 7.563
geometric series k: 0.8604
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9074
Shannon's H: 2.7041
Good's u: 0.9767
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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