North Cook Range (grid sites)
Basic information
Sample name: North Cook Range (grid sites)

Sample aka: Middleback Ranges

Reference: S. M. Carthew and T. Keynes. 2000. Small mammals in a semi-arid community, with particular reference to Ningaui yvonneae. Australian Mammalogy 22(2):103-109 [ER 854]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: South Australia


Coordinate: 33° 9' S, 137° 7' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "35 km west of Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula"

Environment
Habitat: Mediterranean woodland

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 240.0

Habitat comments: "semi-arid... mallee overstorey" dominated by Eucalyptus with "hot dry summers and cool winters" (i.e., Mediterranean)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 2

Sampling methods: quadrat,drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 149 individuals

Years: 1991 - 1994

Nets or traps: 98

Net or trap nights: 4459

Sampling comments: "two grids of 49 traps [and drift fences] each... spaced 15 m apart"
counts are of individuals

Metadata
Sample number: 1208

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-15 10:44:09

Modified: 2015-02-14 23:44:09

Abundance distribution
5 species
1 singleton
total count 149
extrapolated richness: 7.4
Fisher's α: 0.997
geometric series k: 0.3195
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4891
Shannon's H: 0.8542
Good's u: 0.9933
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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