Mount Nimba (dry season)
Basic information
Sample name: Mount Nimba (dry season)

Reference: C. Denys, B. Kadjo, A. D. Missoup, A. Monadjem, and V. Aniskine. 2013. New records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and karyotypes from Guinean Mount Nimba (West Africa). Italian Journal of Zoology 80(2):279-290 [ER 423]
Geography
Country: Equatorial Guinea



Coordinate: 7.60° N, 8.39° E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Mount Nimba
four sites: "Seringbara (550–620 m asl)... Gbie (540–620 m asl)... Societe des Mines de Fer de Guinea (SMFG) mining concession (1498 m asl)... between the Gouan and Zougue rivers at an intermediate altitude (800–1200 m asl)" (altitude is midpoint)

Environment
Habitat: montane grassland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.9

CMT: 24.8

MAP: 3743.0

Habitat comments: Seringbara is a "lowland forest" and the other sites are apparently "montane grasslands"
climate data based on station 64910 (Douala airport)

Methods
Life forms: bats

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 83 individuals

Years: 2008

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 6

Net or trap nights: 38

Sampling comments: six 12-m mist nets used over 38 net nights
all bats were collected and reposited in the MNHN

Metadata
Sample number: 769

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-10 14:08:55

Modified: 2020-05-29 10:10:41

Abundance distribution
13 species
4 singletons
total count 83
geometric series index: 23.3
Fisher's α: 4.326
geometric series k: 0.7673
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8447
Shannon's H: 2.1262
Good's u: 0.9521
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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