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: 9° 53' N, 8° 59' E
Coordinate 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

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 number: 3008

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-06-07 19:07:10

Modified: 2020-01-14 09:38:07

Abundance distribution
7 species
2 singletons
total count 38
extrapolated richness: 14.2
Fisher's α: 2.520
geometric series k: 0.5888
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5605
Shannon's H: 1.2656
Good's u: 0.9501
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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