Rivière Bleue (2000)
Basic information
Sample name: Rivière Bleue (2000)
Reference: J. Le Breton, J. Chazeau, and H. Jourdan. 2003. Immediate impacts of invasion by Wasmannia auropunctata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on native litter ant fauna in a New Caledonian rainforest. Austral Ecology 28:204-209 [ER 483]
Geography
Country: New Caledonia
Coordinate: 22° 9' S, 166° 48' E
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate based on Lac de Yaté
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Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: invasive animals
WMT: 26.1
CMT: 19.9
MAP: 1042.0
Habitat comments: "pristine and undisturbed rainforest"
assemblage is heavily dominated by the invasive Wasmannia auropunctata
climate based on station 91592 (Noumea)
assemblage is heavily dominated by the invasive Wasmannia auropunctata
climate based on station 91592 (Noumea)
Methods
Life forms: ants
Site length: 139.000
Site width: 25.000
Sampling methods: quadrat, pitfall traps
Sample size: 1691
Years: 2000
Days: 7
Nets or traps: 168
Net or trap nights: 1176
Sampling comments: "168 pitfall traps arranged in six parallel lines of 28 traps each, with 5 m between the traps and 5 m between the transects" (i.e., 139 x 25 m), with traps "left open for 7 days"
Metadata
Sample: 847
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-19 13:21:30
Modified: 2015-10-04 10:07:29
Abundance distribution
19 species
2 singletons
total count 1691
Fisher's α: 2.998
geometric series k: 0.6658
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1970
Shannon's H: 0.5666
Good's u: 0.9988
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