Zarqan County
Basic information
Sample name: Zarqan County
Reference: A. Masoumeh, A. Kourosh, K. Mohsen, M. M. Hossein, A. Qasem, M.-F. M. Djaefar, N. M. Esmaeil, and D. Tahereh. 2014. Laboratory based diagnosis of leishmaniasis in rodents as the reservoir hosts in southern Iran, 2012. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 4:S575-S580 [ER 904]
Geography
Country: Iran
State: Fars
Coordinate: 29° 46' N, 52° 43' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "The studied areas were Lapooee, Band-Amir, Rahmat-Abad, Shahriyar, Dormanezar and Shool"
Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 13.8
MAP: 330.0
Habitat comments: apparently "desert and semi-desert" and "from outside and marginalized rural areas" (apparently meaning not arable land)
climate data are for Zarqan and are from Erfani et al. (2013, IJFAS)
climate data are for Zarqan and are from Erfani et al. (2013, IJFAS)
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sites: 5
Sampling methods: no design,baited,Sherman traps
Sample size: 108 individuals
Years: 2012
Net or trap nights: 220
Sampling comments: "Rodents were captured once every month using 20 standard Sherman live traps... placed next to burrow holes, and baited with a mixture of dates, cucumbers or millet seeds"; there were 20 trap nights a month over 11 months
Metadata
Sample number: 1352
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-23 17:31:24
Modified: 2015-10-05 05:16:54
Abundance distribution
3 species
0 singletons
total count 108
extrapolated richness: 3.3
Fisher's α: 0.572
geometric series k: 0.2397
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3207
Shannon's H: 0.5993
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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