Lake Mburo National Park (savannah, ungrazed)
Basic information
Sample name: Lake Mburo National Park (savannah, ungrazed)

Reference: P. Okullo, P. M. K. Greve, and S. R. Moe. 2013. Termites, large herbivores, and herbaceous plant dominance structure small mammal communities in savannahs. Ecosystems 16:1002-1012 [ER 943]
Geography
Country: Uganda



Coordinate: 0° 36' S, 30° 57' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.6

MAP: 775.0

Habitat comments: "grassland dominated, but some areas comprise open tree savannah and woodland savannah where Acacia species and Euphorbia candelabrum are common"; "ungrazed" and "grazed" mean with herbivores excluded or allowed into plots, and there was no grazing by non-native animals
MAP 750 to 800 mm; MAT of 69ยบ F is for Mbarara and is from Baker (1958, Uganda Journal)
MAP 750 to 800 mm

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 9

Sampling methods: no design,baited,Sherman traps

Sample size: 185 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 180

Nets or traps: 27

Net or trap nights: 4860

Sampling comments: three "Sherman live traps" in each of nine locations that were "baited with crushed ground nuts (peanuts) and maize flour mixed with water" and "operated for 30 consecutive nights (hereafter referred to as a ses- sion), once every 4 months and lasted from October 2005 to July 2007" (i.e., six times)

Metadata
Sample number: 1425

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-28 14:34:22

Modified: 2015-10-08 09:06:46

Abundance distribution
8 species
1 singleton
total count 185
geometric series index: 10.3
Fisher's α: 1.703
geometric series k: 0.5123
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6162
Shannon's H: 1.3504
Good's u: 0.9946
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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