Cairns
Basic information
Sample name: Cairns
Reference: D. Harley, S. Ritchie, D. Phillips, and A. van den Hurk. 2000. Mosquitoe isolates of Ross River virus from Cairns, Queensland, Australia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 62(5):561-565 [ER 2314]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Queensland
Coordinate: 16° 56' S, 145° 46' E
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate based on Cairns
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: inhabited area
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 29.0
CMT: 20.0
MAP: 2000.0
Habitat comments: seasonally dry forest based on the climate of Cairns
climate data are for Cairns and are from Smout et al. (2016, Veterinary Parasitology)
climate data are for Cairns and are from Smout et al. (2016, Veterinary Parasitology)
Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes
Sites: 20
Sampling methods: no design, sweep nets, baited, light traps, hand capture
Sample size: 60597
Years: 1996 - 1998
Days: 19
Net or trap nights: 60
Sampling comments: "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traps... were baited with 1-octen-3-ol (release rate 5 mg/hr)28 and 500 gm of dry ice. Twenty trapping sites were used, 14 within the city of Cairns. Trapping was on 12 nights during 1996 (early February to late March), 6 nights during 1997 (early February to early April), and 1 night during 1998 (mid February) for a total 60 trap-nights... On 21 days during mid February to early May 1997 daytime sampling for Ae. aegypti was conducted in, around or under houses using either a hand-held battery-powered aspirator29 or a sweep-net"
Metadata
Sample: 2457
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-12-31 15:23:09
Modified: 2020-01-14 16:08:33
Abundance distribution
38 species
2 singletons
total count 60597
extrapolated richness: 40.7
Fisher's α: 3.942
geometric series k: 0.7565
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6906
Shannon's H: 1.6201
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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