Abuko Nature Reserve
Basic information
Sample name: Abuko Nature Reserve

Reference: D. Kock, L. Barnett, J. Fahr, and C. Emms. 2002. On a collection of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from The Gambia. Acta Chiropterologica 4(1):77-97 [ER 385]
Geography
Country: Gambia

Coordinate: 13° 24' N, 16° 39' W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
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Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 27.9
CMT: 24.2
MAP: 944.0
Habitat comments: none given, but the coastal zone of the Gambia is apparently covered with deciduous, seasonally dry forest
climate data based on station 61701 (Serrekunda)
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sampling methods: no design, mist nets
Sample size: 61
Years: 1999, 2000
Sampling comments: "Most bat individuals were captured with mist-nets" but some may have been "caught or observed at their day roosts"
Metadata
Sample: 724
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-04 10:08:12
Modified: 2014-04-25 09:26:18
Abundance distribution
8 species
3 singletons
total count 61
Fisher's α: 2.462
geometric series k: 0.6245
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6926
Shannon's H: 1.4622
Good's u: 0.9514
⇒ extrapolate richness estimates
Register
Eidolon helvum1220 g frugivore
Epomophorus gambianus27200 g
Micropteropus pusillus1826.1 g frugivore
Pipistrellus africanus72.5 g
Pipistrellus guineensis13.5 g
Pipistrellus rendalli26.0 g
Scotoecus hirundo17.9 g insectivore
Scotophilus leucogaster420.5 g insectivore