Lake Hargy Caldera
Basic information
Sample name: Lake Hargy Caldera
Reference: D. G. Miller III, J. Lane, and R. Senock. 2011. Butterflies as potential bioindicators of primary rainforest and oil palm plantation habitats on New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Conservation Biology 17(2):149-159 [ER 816]
Geography
Country: Papua New Guinea
State: West New Britain
Coordinate: 5° 20' S, 151° 6' E
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: coordinate is the midpoint of values for the two sites
elevations are 340 m (Lake Hargy Caldera) and 100 m (Hargy Oil Palm Guest House)
elevations are 340 m (Lake Hargy Caldera) and 100 m (Hargy Oil Palm Guest House)
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: plantation
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 27.5
CMT: 26.8
MAP: 2003.0
Habitat comments: "tropical rain forest" at LHC and palm oil plantation at HOP
climate data are for Rabaul and are from Midgley et al. (2010, ACIAR report)
climate data are for Rabaul and are from Midgley et al. (2010, ACIAR report)
Methods
Life forms: butterflies
Sites: 2
Sampling methods: line transect, baited, visual
Sample size: 298
Sampling comments: "modified Pollard Technique" transects and "three [banana-baited] cylindrical van Someren-Rydon bait traps"
Metadata
Sample: 1165
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-09-21 20:55:33
Modified: 2014-09-21 20:55:33
Abundance distribution
73 species
25 singletons
total count 298
standardised richness: 81.6
Fisher's α: 30.846
geometric series k: 0.9558
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9672
Shannon's H: 3.8126
Good's u: 0.9164
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