Nko'ondo and Djazeng
Basic information
Sample name: Nko'ondo and Djazeng
Reference: P. S. Mbenoun Masse, M. Tindo, M. Kenne, Z. Tadu, R. Mony, and C. Djiéto-Lordon. 2017. Impact of the invasive ant Wasmannia auropunctata (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) on local ant diversity in southern Cameroon. African Journal of Ecology 55(4):423-432 [ER 3252]
Geography
Country: Cameroon
Coordinate: 3° 31' N, 11° 54' E
Latlng basis: stated in text as range
Geography comments: from "Nko'ondo (02º31' N, 010º53' E) and Djazeng (02º31' N, 010º55' E)"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: inhabited area
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: a "rural area" and "Surveys were carried out mainly in home gardens comprising lawns and horticultural, leaf litter, cocoa plantations and secondary forest around houses in villages"
Methods
Life forms: ants
Focal species: Wasmannia auropunctata
Sampling methods: line transect, baited, pitfall traps, hand capture
Sample size: 70186 individuals
Years: 2007 - 2010
Days: 216
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Field study was conducted between August 2007 and July 2010" using "baiting, pirfall trapping and visual catch in quadrat or quadrat sampling"
"we set... six parallel transect lines of 90 m long" with sampling points "spaced 5 m apart" and six "sampling events were conducted each month"
this apparently means there were 36 months x 6 days = 216 sampling days
the quadrats on two of the transects were "1 m square" and the bait stations on two of the transects contained "a mixture of honey 30%, tuna 50% and soya oil 20%... placed on the ground on a square plastic (20 cm x 20 cm)" while the pitfall traps on the remaining two transects were "left for 4 days prior to the commencement of the experiment"
"we set... six parallel transect lines of 90 m long" with sampling points "spaced 5 m apart" and six "sampling events were conducted each month"
this apparently means there were 36 months x 6 days = 216 sampling days
the quadrats on two of the transects were "1 m square" and the bait stations on two of the transects contained "a mixture of honey 30%, tuna 50% and soya oil 20%... placed on the ground on a square plastic (20 cm x 20 cm)" while the pitfall traps on the remaining two transects were "left for 4 days prior to the commencement of the experiment"
Metadata
Sample no: 3590
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-01-11 13:58:10
Modified: 2020-01-14 07:56:29
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
63 species
8 singletons
total count 70186
geometric series index: 81.5
Fisher's α: 6.819
geometric series k: 0.8371
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.2358
Shannon's H: 0.6299
Good's u: 0.9999
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