Laudholm Farm
Basic information
Sample name: Laudholm Farm
Reference: P. W. Rand, E. H. Lacombe, R. P. Smith Jr, and J. Ficker. 1998. Participation of birds (Aves) in the emergence of Lyme disease in southern Maine. Journal of Medical Entomology 35(3):270-276 [ER 1231]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Maine
Coordinate: 42° 20' 0" N, 70° 32' 45" W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "within the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve in Wells"
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Climate and habitat
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 23.1
CMT: -0.7
MAP: 1076.0
Habitat comments: "a 175 ha wildlife sanctuary" with sampling "along the upland meadow-forest edge"; the forest is "2nd growth" and dominated by red maple, yellow birch, and white pine
climate data are based on station 72509
climate data are based on station 72509
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: no design, mist nets
Sample size: 1965
Years: 1989 - 1996
Days: 128
Seasons: spring, summer
Nets or traps: 8
Net or trap nights: 1024
Sampling comments: sampling was weekly from "15 May through 1 September" each year for "950 +/- 10 net-hours per year... using from 6 to 10 12-m Japanese mist nets" (number of net days is approximately 8 years x 16 days per year x 8 nets)
Metadata
Sample: 1773
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-09-19 18:51:24
Modified: 2015-09-27 17:57:10
Abundance distribution
64 species
12 singletons
total count 1965
Fisher's α: 12.673
geometric series k: 0.9107
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9240
Shannon's H: 3.0818
Good's u: 0.9939
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