Bevia (forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Bevia (forest)

Reference: D. M. Scott, D. Brown, S. Mahood, B. Denton, A. Silburn, and F. Rakotondraparany. 2006. The impacts of forest clearance on lizard, small mammal and bird communities in the arid spiny forest, southern Madagascar. Biological Conservation 127(1):72-87 [ER 257]
Geography
Country: Madagascar



Coordinate: 24° 50' S, 46° 27' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: altitude 0 to 100 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing,selective logging

WMT: 27.0

CMT: 22.5

MAP: 700.0

Habitat comments: "spiny forest" with mostly low-level grazing and wood cutting
CMT min/max 15/30, WMT min/max 21/33
precip "less than 700 mm"

Methods
Life forms: lizards

Sampling methods: timed,drift fences,pitfall traps,visual

Sample size: 198 individuals

Years: 2003

Sampling comments: "drift lines with pitfall trapping and time-constrained searches"

Metadata
Sample number: 522

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-22 11:39:39

Modified: 2014-03-22 00:42:32

Abundance distribution
13 species
3 singletons
total count 198
geometric series index: 19.4
Fisher's α: 3.121
geometric series k: 0.6941
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7604
Shannon's H: 1.8235
Good's u: 0.9848
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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