Buldhana District
Basic information
Sample name: Buldhana District
Reference: P. S. Joshi and V. T. Tantarpale. 2016. Diversity of Saurian fauna in the Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9:306-311 [ER 2275]
Geography
Country: India
State: Maharashtra
Coordinate: 21° 4' N, 76° 28' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range
Geography comments: "in the Amravati division... between 19º51' N and 21º17' N latitude and 75º57' E and 76º59' E longitude"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 34.9
CMT: 21.4
MAP: 797.0
Habitat comments: "The climatic condition of this district is characterized by a hot summer, well-distributed rainfall during the south-west monsoon season, and generally dry weather during the rest of the year... During summer, the mean daily maximum temperature was 42.3ºC and the minimum was 27.4ºC, and it decreased toward winter with a mean daily maximum temperature of 27.6ºC and a minimum of 15.1ºC"
Methods
Life forms: lizards
Sampling methods: no design,visual
Sample size: 295 captures or sightings
Years: 2014, 2015
Sampling comments: field work was "during February 2014 to January 2015" and "The survey was made using a 'visual encounter survey' method... as well as by employing randomized walking"
Metadata
Sample number: 2375
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-12-17 16:01:07
Modified: 2016-12-17 05:01:07
Abundance distribution
14 species
1 singleton
total count 295
extrapolated richness: 16.5
Fisher's α: 3.057
geometric series k: 0.7501
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8947
Shannon's H: 2.3761
Good's u: 0.9966
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Current reference:
Huckleberry et al. 2001 (ER 3215)