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
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "approximately 80 kilometres north of Townsville... seven kilometres from the township of Paluma"
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

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: mist nets

Sample size: 1120 individuals

Years: 1978 - 1990, 1995, 1997

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 number: 1113

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-08-27 15:50:29

Modified: 2014-08-27 05:50:29

Abundance distribution
33 species
6 singletons
total count 1120
geometric series index: 45.1
Fisher's α: 6.378
geometric series k: 0.8400
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8989
Shannon's H: 2.7068
Good's u: 0.9946
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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