Sample name: Atewa Range Forest Reserve (heavily disturbed forest)

Reference: P. Addo-Fordjour, B. A. Osei, and E. A. Kpontsu. 2015. Butterfly community assemblages in relation to human disturbance in a tropical upland forest in Ghana, and implications for conservation. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 3(6):1-18 [ER 2263]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: branches or trunks

Disturbance: agriculture, selective logging

MAT: 27.0

MAP: 1578.0

Habitat comments: "The heavily disturbed forest has undergone major disturbances in the form of logging and farming activities"
climate data are for the Birim Basin, which includes the site, and are from Asomaning (1993, J Afr Earth Sci)

Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: quadrat, butterfly nets, baited, other traps

Sample size: 397 individuals

Years: 2011

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The current study was conducted... from January to June 2011... the quadrat sampling method was employed... Butterflies were therefore, sampled within the 50 m × 50 m plots used for the vegetation sampling. Modified IKEA® fruit baited traps (Aduse-Poku 2006) were used to trap butterflies in the forest types. In each plot, two traps, stocked with bait were hanged on trees at the canopy and under-storey layers (DeVries et al. 1997). The understorey layer traps were suspended at about 2 m from the forest floor and the canopy traps were about 39-42 m from the forest floor. The bait was made by mixing over-ripped banana mashed with fermented palm wine... Additional sampling was done with a swoop net"

Sample no: 2355

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-29 15:56:32

Modified: 2016-12-13 00:07:07