Majawanga (bush site 1)
Basic information
Sample name: Majawanga (bush site 1)

Reference: S. Tind Nielsen. 2007. Deforestation and biodiversity: effects of bushland cultivation on dung beetles in semi-arid Tanzania. Biodiversity and Conservation 16:2753-2769 [ER 364]
Geography
Country: Tanzania


Coordinate: 6° 5' S, 36° 50' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the Morogoro Region"
altitude 1350 to 1400 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 24.9

CMT: 20.0

MAP: 420.0

Habitat comments: "semi-arid" with "a long dry season from April to early December" and MAP of 390 to 650 mm; the area was originally "more or less continuous Acacia woodland" and is now "cleared for agriculture" but the site is a small fragment of bushland (5 to 15 ha in area)
CMT and WMT based on climate station 63862 (Dodoma), which has similar MAP

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 1

Site length: 32

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1844 individuals

Years: 2004

Days: 4

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 40

Sampling comments: two rows of five dung-baited pitfall traps placed 4 m apart sampled over one four-day period in March

Metadata
Sample number: 694

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-01 14:28:20

Modified: 2015-10-02 10:54:38

Abundance distribution
58 species
13 singletons
total count 1844
geometric series index: 86.6
Fisher's α: 11.387
geometric series k: 0.9013
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9080
Shannon's H: 2.9316
Good's u: 0.9930
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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