Paluma Range
Basic information
Sample name: Paluma Range
Reference: C. B. Frith and D. W. Frith. 2005. A long-term bird banding study in upland tropical rainforest, Paluma Range, north-eastern Queensland with notes on breeding. Corella 29(2):25-48 [ER 770]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Queensland
Coordinate: 19° 0' S, 146° 10' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "approximately 80 kilometres north of Townsville... seven kilometres from the township of Paluma"
elevation 850 to 950 m
elevation 850 to 950 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 23.2
CMT: 13.2
MAP: 2300.0
Habitat comments: "upland rainforest"
CMT and WMT are based on monthly mean min/max values given in text; MAP estimated from figure
CMT and WMT are based on monthly mean min/max values given in text; MAP estimated from figure
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sites: 1
Sampling methods: mist nets
Sample size: 1120 individuals
Years: 1978 - 1990, 1995, 1997
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "two [contiguous] 50 hectare plots" with "most netting" carried out in site SA1 (11 net sites) and some in SA2 (four net sites); number of netting days is unclear and effort was variable from year to year
Metadata
Sample no: 1113
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-08-27 15:50:29
Modified: 2014-08-27 05:50:29
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
33 species
6 singletons
total count 1120
geometric series index: 45.1
Fisher's α: 6.378
geometric series k: 0.84
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8989
Shannon's H: 2.7068
Good's u: 0.9946
Register
| Chrysococcyx lucidus | 1 | 4.9 g |
| Alcedo pusilla | 1 | 13.3 g |
| Tanysiptera sylvia | 1 | 49.6 g |
| Pitta versicolor | 3 | 8.9 g |
| Cormobates leucophaeus | 19 | 22.0 g |
| Oreoscopus gutturalis | 58 | 20.0 g |
| Sericornis citreogularis | 113 | 4.2 g |
| Sericornis magnirostris | 130 | 9.8 g |
| Gerygone mouki | 8 | 5.2 g |
| Acanthiza katherina | 30 | 7.2 g |
| Meliphaga lewinii | 6 | |
| Lichenostomus frenatus | 60 | |
| Phylidonyris nigra | 1 | |
| Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris | 22 | |
| Tregellasia capito | 32 | 13.9 g |
| Poecilodryas albispecularis | 265 | |
| Orthonyx spaldingii | 9 | 12.8 g |
| Psophodes olivaceus | 7 | 68.0 g |
| Pachycephala pectoralis | 28 | 1.6 g |
| Colluricincla boweri | 57 | 43.8 g |
| Machaerirhynchus flaviventer | 3 | 3.1 g |
| Monarcha melanopsis | 3 | 22.7 g |
| Monarcha trivirgatus | 19 | 12.7 g |
| Arses kaupi | 1 | 13.5 g |
| Rhipidura rufifrons | 63 | 1.5 g |
| Rhipidura fuliginosa | 64 | 2.7 g |
| Ptiloris victoriae | 5 | |
| Ailuroedus melanotis | 57 | |
| Scenopoeetes dentirostris | 23 | |
| Prionodura newtoniana | 22 | |
| Ptilonorhynchus violaceus | 2 | |
| Dicaeum hirundinaceum | 1 | 9.3 g |
| Zoothera lunulata | 6 | 130.0 g |