Parnitha Mountain
Basic information
Sample name: Parnitha Mountain

Reference: S. Antonatos, N. Emmanouel, A. Fantinou, A. Tsagkarakis, A. Anagnostopoulos, and D. Ntampakis. 2014. Seasonal population fluctuation and spatial distribution of Orthoptera in two grassland areas of Attica - Greece. Journal of Natural History 48(11-12):661-674 [ER 2150]
Geography
Country: Greece

Coordinate: 38° 11' 48" N, 24° 45' 51" E
Geography comments: "at the Parnitha mountain... having a size of about 5 ha"

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 20.9

CMT: 0.2

MAP: 467.0

Habitat comments: "adjacent to a fir forest (Abies cephalonica) along one of its sides... in a mild Mediterranean climate... The plant community... consisted mainly of plant species of the families Poaceae, Fabaceae and Asteraceae"
CMT 0.4 and 0.0, WMT 21.4 and 20.4, and MAP 526 and 408 mm during the two sampling years

Methods
Life forms: orthopterans

Sampling methods: line transect, sweep nets

Sample size: 1278 individuals

Years: 2007, 2008

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Orthopteran communities were sampled using a 40-cm diameter sweep net... Samples were taken every 10 days from March to October and every 20–30 days from November to February in both years. The collector walked along a straight line on the transect"
internally consistent percentage data are given

Metadata
Sample no: 2143

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-07-24 20:31:05

Modified: 2016-07-24 10:31:05

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics