Stirling Range National Park (drought)
Basic information
Sample name: Stirling Range National Park (drought)

Reference: A. Rose. 1995. The effects of rainfall on the abundance and species richness of small vertebrates in the Stirling Range National Park. Western Australian Naturalist 20(2):53-59 [ER 3299]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Western Australia


Coordinate: -34.32° S, 118.19° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Geography comments: two sites "near the junction of Bluff Knoll and Chester Pass Roads at the northern boundary of the park"
coordinate based on the intersection of these two roads

Environment
Habitat: Mediterranean woodland

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "mallee scrub"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals,lizards,snakes,frogs

Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 55 captures or sightings

Years: 1986 - 1988

Days: 126

Nets or traps: 5

Net or trap nights: 543

Sampling comments: "A pit-trap survey was conducted in mallee scrub from December 1986 to September 1990... Pits were opened for 8 days and 7 nights at the beginning of each month. The first eighteen months were conducted under drought conditions" and there were 46 months, so the post-drought data apply to 28 months
"Pit-traps consisted of plastic buckets 300mm in dia. by 400mm deep... A 400mm high flywire fence was run" and there was one line at each of two sites during the first 18 months, with two buckets at Site A and three buckets at Site B
7 x 18 = 126 nights and 543 pit-trap nights

Metadata
Sample number: 3672

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-06-08 20:27:02

Modified: 2020-06-08 10:28:46

Abundance distribution
15 species
7 singletons
total count 55
geometric series index: 42.2
Fisher's α: 6.794
geometric series k: 0.8074
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7976
Shannon's H: 2.0688
Good's u: 0.8754
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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