Karasuk
Basic information
Sample name: Karasuk

Reference: T. A. Dupal, Z. M. Sergazinova, N. T. Erzhanov, and Y. N. Litvinov. 2017. Preliminary assessment of changes in the structure of small mammal communities caused by industrial pollution in the north Kazakhstan region. Contemporary Problems of Ecology 10(6):700-706 [ER 3240]
Geography
Country: Russia


Coordinate: 53° 43' N, 78° 3' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in the outskirts of the village of Troitskoe and 15 km away from the town of Karasuk in Novosibirsk oblast at the Karasuk research station of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences... 200 km northeast of Pavlodar"
coordinate based on Karasuk

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "Volga fescue-grasses-forbs steppe, Stipa and Volga fescue steppe along a forest belt, a farm field overgrown with grasses and forbs, and a wet lakeshore meadow covered with grasses and forbs on the shore of Krotovo Lake"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sites: 4

Sampling methods: pitfall traps

Sample size: 138 specimens

Years: 2016

Days: 30

Seasons: summer

Net or trap nights: 770

Sampling comments: "Field operations were conducted from June to August in 2016" and "four test sites" were sampled
"Species were collected using 50-m-long pitfall traps for 10 days every month. Leaving 5 m from the edge, five cones were pushed (dug) into the trench bottom 10 m apart"

Metadata
Sample number: 3568

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-12-23 20:55:41

Modified: 2019-12-23 09:55:41

Abundance distribution
10 species
1 singleton
total count 138
geometric series index: 13.4
Fisher's α: 2.476
geometric series k: 0.6311
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7325
Shannon's H: 1.7000
Good's u: 0.9929
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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