Lola Field Station (forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Lola Field Station (forest)
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: 9° 45' 6" N, 4° 49' 59" W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: elevation range 250 to 300 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
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: 1135 individuals
Years: 1999, 2000
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: beetles were directly collected from 31 olive baboon dung piles
Metadata
Sample no: 637
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-28 15:39:12
Modified: 2015-09-29 10:20:38
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
37 species
9 singletons
total count 1135
geometric series index: 59.6
Fisher's α: 7.328
geometric series k: 0.8313
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5253
Shannon's H: 1.5516
Good's u: 0.9921
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