Sample name: Uppungala

Reference: P. Basu. 1997. Seasonal and spatial patterns in ground foraging ants in a rain forest in the Western Ghats, India. Biotropica 29(4):489-500 [ER 1158]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.0

MAP: 3250.0

Habitat comments: "a primary low elevation evergreen forest of Dipterocarpus-Kingiodendron-Humboldtia type" with "4 to 5 dry months with an average annual rainfall between 3000 to 3500 mm"
MAT is for the Dakshina Kannada District and is from Dhanorkar et al. (2010)

Life forms: ants

Sites: 10

Sampling methods: quadrat, pitfall traps

Sample size: 25559 individuals

Years: 1990, 1991

Days: 24

Seasons: dry, wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 250

Net or trap nights: 6000

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "10 plots, each 10 m x 10 m... Six plots were located under canopy forest and four in tree fall gaps... Sampling was conducted in both dry and wet seasons. All plots were sampled once a month in each sampling season... Twenty-five traps were placed uniformly (with approximately 1.5 m gap between two traps) in each of the 100 square meter plots... Traps were collected after 24 hr"
sampling was apparently throughout the entirety of 1990 and 1991

Sample no: 1684

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-05 15:59:08

Modified: 2015-10-04 03:53:15