Durokoppin Reserve (yellow sand farmland)
Basic information
Sample name: Durokoppin Reserve (yellow sand farmland)
Reference: L. A. Lobry de Bruyn. 1993. Ant composition and activity in naturally-vegetated and farmland environments on contrasting soils at Kellerberrin, Western Australia. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 25(8):1043-1056 [ER 473]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Western Australia
Coordinate: 31° 24' S, 118° 45' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna
Altered habitat: cropland
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 22.0
CMT: 9.0
MAP: 332.0
Habitat comments: a "mediterranean" climate with CMT min/max 4/14 and WMT min/max 15/29 and originally "a mosaic of vegetation types including mixed heath, mallee and open woodland"
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 5
Site area: 0.6
Sampling methods: quadrat, pitfall traps
Sample size: 10666 individuals
Years: 1987
Days: 15
Nets or traps: 100
Net or trap nights: 300
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: each of the five sites includes a single 0.2 ha quadrat divided into twenty 10 x 10 subquadrats each including one pitfall trap sampled on one day during three different seasons
Metadata
Sample no: 1295
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-19 13:40:36
Modified: 2015-02-19 02:40:36
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
32 species
4 singletons
total count 10666
geometric series index: 40.9
Fisher's α: 4.065
geometric series k: 0.766
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7534
Shannon's H: 1.7491
Good's u: 0.9996
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