La Selva Biological Station (Winkler samples)
Basic information
Sample name: La Selva Biological Station (Winkler samples)
Reference: J. T. Longino, J. Coddington, and R. K. Colwell. 2002. The ant fauna of a tropical rain forest: estimating species richness three different ways. Ecology 83:689-702 [ER 501]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
Coordinate: 10° 25' 19" N, 84° 0' 54" W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate based on La Selva Biological Station
elevation 50 to 150 m
elevation 50 to 150 m
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: leaf litter
MAT: 26.0
MAP: 4260.0
Habitat comments: "a mosaic of mature lowland rain forest, second growth forest of various ages, and abandoned pastures"
climate data based on Kennedy and Horn (2008)
climate data based on Kennedy and Horn (2008)
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sampling methods: Winkler apparatus
Sample size: 1415
Nets or traps: 41
Sampling comments: 41 "sites" collected using the Winkler method
Metadata
Sample: 868
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-22 14:05:46
Modified: 2014-04-26 11:22:13
Abundance distribution
197 species
50 singletons
total count 1415
extrapolated richness: 273.9
Fisher's α: 62.190
geometric series k: 0.9817
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9886
Shannon's H: 4.7627
Good's u: 0.9647
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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