Shenton Bushland
Basic information
Sample name: Shenton Bushland

Reference: P. F. Berry and O. F. Berry. 2008. Herpetofauna of four remnant bushland isolates in the city of Nedlands, Perth. Western Australian Naturalist 26(1):27-41 [ER 3297]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Western Australia


Coordinate: 31° 57' 48" S, 115° 48' 1" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: sites were at 31 57 48.0 S, 115 48 1.3 E and 31 57 48.1 S, 115 48 1.1 E

Environment
Habitat: Mediterranean woodland

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: invasive plants

Habitat comments: a 20.9 ha "A Class Reserve... on aeolian sands of the Spearwood Dune system... predominantly open forest and low woodland" with Eucalyptus, Corymbia, and Banksia
vested in 1996, and "Prior to its vesting, parts... were severely degraded by the dumping of rubbish and weed invasion"

Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,frogs

Sites: 2

Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 2077 captures or sightings

Years: 1994 - 2005

Days: 1230

Seasons: spring,summer,autumn

Nets or traps: 18

Net or trap nights: 22140

Sampling comments: "Animals were captured using 20L plastic bucket pit traps (dimensions 30 x 50 cm) wiht 4m long, 30cm high flywire mesh drift fences... animals were released" after capture
"Two sites were sampled using pit-traps. At each site traps were arranged as 3 x 3 trap grids with traps spaced ca. 5m apart. Trapping began in 1994 and was continued during the spring, summer and autumn months (September to March) until 2005... Total number of days trapped... was 1230" and trap-day count is 22,140

Metadata
Sample number: 3670

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-06-08 19:38:26

Modified: 2020-06-08 09:42:34

Abundance distribution
22 species
2 singletons
total count 2077
geometric series index: 25.5
Fisher's α: 3.434
geometric series k: 0.7428
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8555
Shannon's H: 2.3332
Good's u: 0.9990
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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