Wangasara (Forest A)
Basic information
Sample name: Wangasara (Forest A)
Reference: B. M. Beehler, K. S. R. Krishna Raju, and S. Ali. 1987. Avian use of man-disturbed forest habitats in the Eastern Ghats, India. Ibis 129:197-211 [ER 751]
Geography
Country: India
State: Andhra Pradesh
Coordinate: 17° 50' N, 82° 20' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "on the Chintapalli plateau, Visakhapatnam District... at the village of Wangasara"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: recent fire,selective logging
WMT: 31.3
CMT: 22.8
MAP: 1237.0
Habitat comments: "a large tract of lightly disturbed hill forest" and specifically "tropical moist deciduous hill forest... moderately disturbed by incidental cutting for firewood by the coffee labourers. The understory is burned during some dry seasons"
climate data based on station 43149 (Visakhapatnam)
climate data based on station 43149 (Visakhapatnam)
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: mist nets
Sample size: 97 individuals
Years: 1983
Days: 4
Nets or traps: 13
Net or trap nights: 52
Sampling comments: 13 12-m mist nets "deployed for four full days"
Metadata
Sample number: 1084
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-08-24 10:04:39
Modified: 2016-10-18 09:47:20
Abundance distribution
26 species
11 singletons
total count 97
extrapolated richness: 63.6
Fisher's α: 11.641
geometric series k: 0.8908
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9071
Shannon's H: 2.7602
Good's u: 0.8877
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
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| Streptopelia chinensis | 2 | 159 g granivore |
| Megalaima zeylanica | 2 | 119 g insectivore |
| Picoides nanus | 2 | |
| Dicrurus aeneus | 2 | insectivore |
| Dendrocitta formosae | 1 | omnivore |
| Aegithina tiphia | 1 | 12.0 g insectivore |
| Pycnonotus jocusus | 16 | |
| Pycnonotus cafer | 8 | 45.8 g frugivore-insectivore |
| Pellorneum ruficeps | 5 | 26.0 g |
| Stachyris rufifrons | 1 | 10.6 g insectivore |
| Dumetia hyperythra | 3 | 12.9 g |
| Macronous gularis | 1 | insectivore |
| Chrysomma sinense | 1 | 4.3 g |
| Alcippe poioicephala | 18 | 20.7 g |
| Muscicapa tickelliae | 3 | |
| Hypothymis azurea | 5 | 11.1 g insectivore |
| Prinia hodgsonii | 1 | 6.4 g |
| Orthotomus sutorius | 9 | 7.5 g insectivore |
| Copsychus malabaricus | 4 | 32.0 g insectivore |
| Machlolophus xanthogenys | 5 | |
| "Parus xathogenys" | ||
| Sitta castanea | 1 | insectivore |
| Dicaeum erythrorhynchos | 1 | 6.3 g insectivore |
| Nectarinia xeylonica | 2 | |
| Zosterops palpebrosa | 1 | |
| Lonchura striata | 1 | 12.3 g granivore |