Pu'er City
Basic information
Sample name: Pu'er City
Reference: Z. Lu, B. D. Hoffmann, and Y. Chen. 2016. Can reforested and plantation habitats effectively conserve SW China's ant biodiversity?. Biodiversity and Conservation 25:753-770 [ER 2123]
Geography
Country: China
State: Yunnan
Coordinate: 23° 47' N, 101° 58' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 18.7
MAP: 1519.0
Habitat comments: "evergreen broad-leaved forests" that is "relatively undisturbed... with a history of low-intensity wood harvesting and no agriculture"
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sampling methods: line transect, sweep nets, pitfall traps
Sample size: 2952 individuals
Years: 2008
Days: 5
Nets or traps: 40
Net or trap nights: 200
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: four plots; "Sampling was conducted during sunny and warm weather... in June 2008... We established one 90 m transect in each plot to sample both epigeic and arboreal ants. Epigeic ants were sampled using 10 pitfall traps spaced 10 m apart along the transect... Traps were operated for 5 days... Arboreal ants were sampled by sweep netting and foliage shaking. Ten sweep net samples were collected along each transect"
Metadata
Sample no: 2101
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-06-16 15:06:28
Modified: 2016-06-17 00:46:55
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
77 species
19 singletons
total count 2952
geometric series index: 135.0
Fisher's α: 14.464
geometric series k: 0.9109
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6993
Shannon's H: 1.8655
Good's u: 0.9936
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