Nilambur Taluk
Basic information
Sample name: Nilambur Taluk
Sample aka: Malappuram District
Reference: P. Balakrishnan. 2010. An education programme and establishment of a citizen scientist network to reduce killing of non-venomous snakes in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. Conservation Evidence 7:9-15 [ER 220]
Geography
Country: India
State: Kerala
Coordinate: 11° 15' 0" N, 76° 17' 29" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: adjacent to Silent Valley National Park
coordinate based on ranges given in text
coordinate based on ranges given in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: cropland
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 29.6
CMT: 25.9
MAP: 3089.0
Habitat comments: "previously forested... now dominated by a mosaic of human settlements, agricultural land and plantations of rubber... and teak"
climate data based on station 43314 (Kozhikode)
climate data based on station 43314 (Kozhikode)
Methods
Life forms: snakes
Sampling methods: hand capture
Sample size: 536 individuals
Years: 2003 - 2009
Sampling comments: combined counts of snakes killed and snakes released by villagers
Metadata
Sample number: 453
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-17 16:27:25
Modified: 2014-04-26 10:41:23
Abundance distribution
17 species
0 singletons
total count 536
extrapolated richness: 18.7
Fisher's α: 3.344
geometric series k: 0.7711
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8842
Shannon's H: 2.4272
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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