Mpala Research Centre
Basic information
Sample name: Mpala Research Centre
Reference: F. Keesing. 1998. Impacts of ungulates on the demography and diversity of small mammals in central Kenya. Oecologia 116:381-389 [ER 919]
Geography
Country: Kenya
Coordinate: 0° 17' N, 36° 53' E
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "in the Laikipia District of central Kenya"
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: grazing
MAT: 19.0
MAP: 508.0
Habitat comments: "wooded grassland... dominated by a swollen-thorn acacia, Acacia drepanolobium" with cattle present but apparently not dominant
MAP 500 to 600 according to the text; climate data are from Huho et al. (2011, Educational Research) and are for the Mukogodo Division of Laikipia District, which includes this coordinate
MAP 500 to 600 according to the text; climate data are from Huho et al. (2011, Educational Research) and are for the Mukogodo Division of Laikipia District, which includes this coordinate
Methods
Life forms: rodents, other small mammals
Sites: 2
Site area: 8.000
Sampling methods: quadrat, baited, Sherman traps
Sample size: 1475
Years: 1995 - 1997
Days: 21
Nets or traps: 200
Net or trap nights: 4200
Sampling comments: "three blocks" of two treatments; "Each treatment is 4 ha (200 m x 200 m); each block is 24 ha (400 m x 600 m)... Each 4-ha plot was set with a 10 by 10 grid with 10 m spacing... Trapping was conducted for three consecutive nights, using large folding Sherman traps, with one trap per station. Traps were baited with a mixture of peanut butter and oatmeal... I conducted seven trapping sessions"
Metadata
Sample: 1380
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-25 10:21:10
Modified: 2015-10-05 17:04:17
Abundance distribution
9 species
1 singleton
total count 1475
Fisher's α: 1.276
geometric series k: 0.4156
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4021
Shannon's H: 0.8895
Good's u: 0.9993
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