Sample name: Lamto reserve (rural forest)

Reference: M. Kone, S. Konate, K. Yeo, P. K. Kouassi, and K. E. Linsenmair. 2010. Diversity and abundance of terrestrial ants along a gradient of land use intensification in a transitional forest-savannah zone of Côte d'Ivoire. Journal of Applied Biosciences 29:1809-1827 [ER 504]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: hunting, selective logging

MAT: 28.6

MAP: 1053.0

Habitat comments: general environment is "forest-savannah transitional zone"; sites are in "Three fragments of forest located within the rural domain... A great number of dead fallen trees were found mainly due to cutting by the farmers (or to wind damage). This damage was also due to selective logging, hunting and medicinal plants harvesting"

Life forms: ants

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: line transect, sieves, Winkler apparatus, pitfall traps, hand capture

Sample size: 591 individuals

Years: 2005

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 30

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: 3 sites each with a 200 m transect including 15 soil samples spaced 12 m apart, with a combination of pitfall traps, extraction using a mini-Winkler apparatus, hand sampling of sieved soil samples, and general hand sampling
"The study was carried out... during the long rainy season (April to October 2005)"

Sample no: 2345

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-27 10:21:36

Modified: 2016-10-26 23:21:36