Kibale National Park (RS3-RS8)
Basic information
Sample name: Kibale National Park (RS3-RS8)

Reference: M. Nyafwono, A. Valtonen, P. Nyeko, and H. Roininen. 2014. Fruit-feeding butterfly communities as indicators of forest restoration in an Afro-tropical rainforest. Biological Conservation 174:75-83 [ER 939]
Geography
Country: Uganda


Coordinate: 0° 28' 0" N, 39° 25' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "south Kibale National Park"
coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in the text
altitude 1000 to 1500 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1697.0

Habitat comments: "medium-altitude tropical rain forest" comprised of "moist evergreen forests, woodland thickets, swamps, grasslands, colonising shrubs and regenerating forests"
logged completely in the 1970s, covered with "banana plantations, elephant grass-dominated areas and grasslands with Combretum spp." by the 1990s, and replanted with native vegetation between 3 and 8 years before the study; classed as secondary forest because the plots are consistently called "restoration forests"

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sites: 15

Sampling methods: baited

Sample size: 767 individuals

Years: 2011, 2012

Sampling comments: "single banana-baited white cylindrical butterfly trap, suspended 40–50 cm above the ground"; 5 traps were deployed in each of three areas (RS3, RS5, and RS8)

Metadata
Sample number: 1415

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-27 14:34:47

Modified: 2015-02-27 03:34:47

Abundance distribution
44 species
10 singletons
total count 767
geometric series index: 72.6
Fisher's α: 10.140
geometric series k: 0.8819
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8369
Shannon's H: 2.4600
Good's u: 0.9870
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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