Amurum Forest Reserve (farmland)
Basic information
Sample name: Amurum Forest Reserve (farmland)
Reference: E. C. Nwankwo and S. A. Manu. 2016. Diversity and abundance survey of bat species in Amurum Forest Reserve north-central Nigeria. International Journal of Science and Engineering Investigations 5(59):98-103 [ER 2786]
Geography
Country: Nigeria
State: Plateau
Coordinate: 10° 53' N, 9° 59' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: the reserve "covers an area of about 300 hectares" and sampling was "in Amurum Forest Reserve and the surrounding area"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Altered habitat: cropland
Protection: forest reserve
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: no details about the "farmland" habitat are given
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sampling methods: no design, mist nets
Sample size: 38 captures or sightings
Years: 2014
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Fieldwork was carried out between May and June, 2014... Two trapping stations of at least 100 m apart were established in each site. In each site, bats were captured using mist nets with a 36-mm mesh of 50-denier nylon (18 m long x 2 m high and 12 m long x 2 m high) and canopy mist net set up... In all, 54 independent capture stations were established with mist nets representing, at least, 1800 m2 of mist-net collecting surface operational for a total of 145 hours" across the four sites and "Nets were opened between 19:00 and 05:00 h at each site... bats comprising 9 species were recorded in 19 trap nights" (suggesting that sampling effort was uneven across sites)
Metadata
Sample no: 3008
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2018-06-07 19:07:10
Modified: 2020-01-14 09:38:07
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
7 species
2 singletons
total count 38
geometric series index: 14.2
Fisher's α: 2.52
geometric series k: 0.5888
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5605
Shannon's H: 1.2656
Good's u: 0.9501
Register
| Eidolon helvum | 4 | 220.0 g |
| Epomophorus gambianus | 1 | 200.0 g |
| Epomophorus wahlbergi | 2 | 85.5 g |
| Micropteropus pusillus | 24 | 26.1 g |
| Nanonycteris veldkampii | 4 | 22.0 g |
| Rhinolophus alcyone | 1 | 14.6 g |
| Rousettus aegyptiacus | 2 | 129.0 g |