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)

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
geometric series index: 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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