Sample name: Great Indian Bustard Wildlife Sanctuary (undisturbed, March 2010, pitfall traps)

Reference: N. B. Patkar and R. J. Chavan. 2014. Diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from undisturbed and disturbed habitats of Great Indian Bustard Wildlife Sanctuary, (M. S.), India. International Journal of Recent Scientific Research 3(12):398-401 [ER 1160]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 30.1

CMT: 20.7

MAP: 625.0

Habitat comments: "Southern tropical thorn forest... Human activities are nearly nil from this area"
climate data are for the Ahmednagar weather station and are from Bisen and Bhagat (2013)

Life forms: ants

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: quadrat, pitfall traps

Sample size: 205 individuals

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: in the undisturbed area "Three different plots of 110 hectare (Nannaj), 100 hectare (Nannaj) and 50 hectare (Mardi) were selected... At least one pit-fall trap were placed in each of the five randomly chosen 20m x 20m quadrates of one hectare plot at each site... The traps were set up between 15.00 and 17.00 hrs and were collected after 48 hrs" (number of sampling attempts is unclear)

Sample no: 1686

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-05 16:42:24

Modified: 2015-10-04 04:03:52