Southern Ghana
Basic information
Sample name: Southern Ghana
Reference: R. Belshaw and B. Bolton. 1994. A survey of the leaf litter ant fauna in Ghana, West Africa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:5-16 [ER 509]
Geography
Country: Ghana
Coordinate: 7° 40' N, 1° 20' W
Latlng basis: estimated from map
Geography comments: sites are arrayed more or less in a line striking across the inland of southern Ghana and centered roughly on Kumasi and Lake Bosumtwi
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Substrate: leaf litter
Disturbance: agriculture
MAT: 26.0
WMT: 26.8
CMT: 23.2
MAP: 1450.0
Habitat comments: "moist semi-deciduous zone… 14 areas of primary forest… 10 areas of secondary forest… and 10 cocoa farms"
climate data are based on Turner et al. (1996, Journal of Hydrology) and apply to Kumasi
climate data are based on Turner et al. (1996, Journal of Hydrology) and apply to Kumasi
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 34
Site area: 0.043
Sampling methods: quadrat, Winkler apparatus
Sample size: 43824 individuals
Years: 1991, 1992
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "At each site an area of approximately 1000m2 was measured out. Within this area ten 1m2 quadrats were placed at random. All the leaf litter in a quadrat was collected, shaken through a 1 cm sieve, and then left for three days in a Winkler bag"
Metadata
Sample no: 878
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-27 19:12:47
Modified: 2015-07-07 07:01:33
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
197 species
29 singletons
total count 43824
geometric series index: 257.3
Fisher's α: 26.593
geometric series k: 0.957
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9591
Shannon's H: 3.7686
Good's u: 0.9993
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