Tari Gap
Basic information
Sample name: Tari Gap

Reference: C. B. Frith and D. W. Frith. 1993. Results of a preliminary highland bird banding study at Tari Gap, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Corella 17(1):5-21 [ER 769]
Geography
Country: Papua New Guinea


Coordinate: 5° 57' S, 143° 10' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: elevation range 2460 to 2800 m; value used is the midpoint for seven sites

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 17.0

CMT: 15.1

MAP: 3680.0

Habitat comments: "Lower Montane Rain Forest, interspersedwith patches of Lower Montane Grassland"
climate data based on Kaijende Highlands RAP report (Richards 2007): CMT and WMT are estimated from daily min/max values

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sites: 7

Sampling methods: mist nets

Sample size: 898 individuals

Years: 1986 - 1989

Days: 49

Nets or traps: 8

Net or trap nights: 392

Sampling comments: "four 9.15 x 2.74m and four 12.2x 2.74 m nets" used non-simultaneously at seven different sites during 49 days spread across three field seasons

Metadata
Sample number: 1112

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-08-27 15:21:47

Modified: 2014-08-27 05:21:47

Abundance distribution
50 species
10 singletons
total count 898
geometric series index: 73.2
Fisher's α: 11.423
geometric series k: 0.9107
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9401
Shannon's H: 3.1860
Good's u: 0.9889
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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