Lola Field Station (savanna)
Basic information
Sample name: Lola Field Station (savanna)
Sample aka: Comoé National Park
Reference: B. K. Kunz and F.-T. Krell. 2011. Habitat differences in dung beetle assemblages in an African savanna forest ecotone: implications for secondary seed dispersal. Integrative Zoology 6:81-96 [ER 322]
Geography
Country: Ivory Coast
Coordinate: 8° 45' 6" N, 3° 48' 59" W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: elevation range 250 to 300 m
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.3
MAP: 1053.0
Habitat comments: "an ecotone between the semi-deciduous rainforests farther south and the savanna woodlands in the northern Sudanian zone"
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sampling methods: no design, hand capture
Sample size: 2367
Years: 1999, 2000
Sampling comments: beetles were directly collected from 32 olive baboon dung piles
Metadata
Sample: 636
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-28 15:17:54
Modified: 2015-09-29 20:20:28
Abundance distribution
64 species
16 singletons
total count 2367
Fisher's α: 12.123
geometric series k: 0.9016
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8862
Shannon's H: 2.8522
Good's u: 0.9932
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