Nyika National Park (Area 1)
Basic information
Sample name: Nyika National Park (Area 1)

Reference: S. M. Allingham and M. Harvey. 2013. Effects of different fire regimes on amphibian communities in the Nyika National Park, Malawi. Current Herpetology 32(1):1-8 [ER 666]
Geography
Country: Malawi



Coordinate: 10° 40' S, 33° 50' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: altitude 1565 to 1690 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 23.0

MAP: 1500.0

Habitat comments: miombo (woodland), montane grasslands, and evergreen forest patches
MAP "above 1500" in "the southeast" of the park, so presumably this is a reasonable median estimate

Methods
Life forms: frogs

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps,hand capture

Sample size: 203 individuals

Years: 2010

Nets or traps: 12

Net or trap nights: 120

Sampling comments: "pitfall traps, drift fences, and random visual encounters" at three sites each sampled with three fences and four buckets 10 times (meaning 40 trap nights nights)
capture-mark-release (toe clipping) was used to avoid duplicate counts

Metadata
Sample number: 972

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-06-25 11:59:49

Modified: 2014-06-25 01:59:49

Abundance distribution
16 species
0 singletons
total count 203
geometric series index: 18.3
Fisher's α: 4.072
geometric series k: 0.8523
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9217
Shannon's H: 2.6322
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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