St. Catherine's Monastery (spring)
Basic information
Sample name: St. Catherine's Monastery (spring)
Reference: U. N. Safriel and D. Lavee. 1988. Weight changes of cross-desert migrants at an oasis: do energetic considerations alone determine the length of stopover?. Oecologia 76(4):611-619 [ER 725]
Geography
Country: Egypt
Coordinate: 29° 34' 37" N, 34° 59' 25" E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 20.0
CMT: 12.8
MAP: 23.0
Habitat comments: "bare, rugged and precipitous slopes, and the typical desert vegetation is concentrated along gullies and ravines"
MAP is the mean for two years; CMT and WMT are based on ranges of daily ranges
MAP is the mean for two years; CMT and WMT are based on ranges of daily ranges
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: mist nets
Sample size: 756 individuals
Years: 1970 - 1972
Days: 206
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: there was a "mean of 290 m per netting day" but the actual number of nets is unclear
Metadata
Sample no: 1050
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-08-17 20:12:52
Modified: 2014-08-17 10:12:52
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
33 species
5 singletons
total count 756
geometric series index: 49.1
Fisher's α: 7.043
geometric series k: 0.8571
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8824
Shannon's H: 2.4668
Good's u: 0.9934
Register
| Anthus trivialis | 52 | 21.7 g |
| Anthus campestris | 5 | 23.0 g |
| Motacilla cinerea | 2 | 4.0 g |
| Motacilla flava | 4 | 2.1 g |
| Lanius nubicus | 7 | |
| Lanius collurio | 2 | |
| Locustella luscinioides | 2 | 3.7 g |
| Acrocephalus scirpaceus | 4 | 12.3 g |
| Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | 5 | 3.5 g |
| Hippolais icterina | 1 | 13.2 g |
| Hippolais pallida | 3 | 9.0 g |
| Sylvia cantillans | 1 | 9.6 g |
| Sylvia borin | 83 | 18.2 g |
| Sylvia nisoria | 1 | 22.5 g |
| Sylvia atricapilla | 94 | 16.7 g |
| Sylvia communis | 7 | 15.1 g |
| Sylvia curruca | 106 | 3.4 g |
| Phylloscopus trochilus | 4 | 8.7 g |
| Phylloscopus collybita | 123 | 8.3 g |
| Phylloscopus bonelli | 1 | 8.5 g |
| Muscicapa striata | 48 | 15.9 g |
| Ficedula hypoleuca | 14 | 12.2 g |
| Ficedula albicollis | 10 | 12.9 g |
| Saxicola torquatus | 1 | |
| "Saxicola torquata" | ||
| Saxicola rubetra | 5 | 16.6 g |
| Monticola saxatilis | 3 | 50.3 g |
| Oenanthe oenanthe | 7 | 5.5 g |
| Oenanthe hispanica | 7 | 16.4 g |
| Oenanthe pleschanka | 2 | 18.2 g |
| Luscinia svecica | 2 | |
| Luscinia megarhynchos | 8 | 2.8 g |
| Phoenicurus phoenicurus | 139 | 14.7 g |
| Oriolus oriolus | 3 | |