Tonqani
Basic information
Sample name: Tonqani
Reference: M. K. Rowan. 1964. An analysis of the records of a South African ringing station. Ostrich 35(3):160-187 [ER 2761]
Geography
Country: South Africa
State: Gauteng
Coordinate: 26° 13' S, 28° 6' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "at Bryanston on the outskirts of Johannesburg"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Altered habitat: inhabited area
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: part of a private property "planted with trees" that "has several reed beds" and "donga dams" and is surrounded by "open grass-veld"
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: no design, mist nets, sticky traps, other traps
Sample size: 12286 individuals
Years: 1954 - 1959
Nets or traps: 18
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "For the first four years... walk-in traps" were used, and from 1957 mist nets were used with nets at "eighteen points" that were "regularly placed"
counts are of individuals ringed as adults or juveniles (as opposed to nestlings, which are also inventoried and apparently were sampled in an ad hoc way)
counts are of individuals ringed as adults or juveniles (as opposed to nestlings, which are also inventoried and apparently were sampled in an ad hoc way)
Metadata
Sample no: 2952
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2018-05-08 20:58:40
Modified: 2020-01-14 07:50:09
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
83 species
20 singletons
total count 12286
geometric series index: 134.4
Fisher's α: 11.968
geometric series k: 0.8965
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5722
Shannon's H: 1.4707
Good's u: 0.9984
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