Territory Wildlife Park (ground)
Basic information
Sample name: Territory Wildlife Park (ground)
Reference: A. N. Andersen, L. T. van Ingen, and R. I. Campos. 2007. Contrasting rainforest and savanna ant faunas in monsoonal northern Australia: a rainforest patch in a tropical savanna landscape. Australian Journal of Zoology 55:363-369 [ER 530]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Northern Territory
Coordinate: 13° 42' S, 131° 59' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "40 km south-west of Darwin"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Protection: wildlife protected area
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 27.6
MAP: 1700.0
Habitat comments: "wet monsoon rainforest"
"virtually all" rainfall is from November to April; MAT is the average of daily min/max 23.2/31.9
"virtually all" rainfall is from November to April; MAT is the average of daily min/max 23.2/31.9
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 5
Sampling methods: no design, pitfall traps
Sample size: 2268 individuals
Years: 2007
Days: 4
Nets or traps: 75
Net or trap nights: 300
Sampling comments: "five locations, separated by at least 50 m. At each location, 15 4-cm-diameter plastic containers... were dug into the ground in a 5 × 3 grid with 5-m spacing, and operated for a 4-day period
Metadata
Sample no: 903
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-05-03 21:03:30
Modified: 2014-05-03 11:03:30
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
24 species
8 singletons
total count 2268
geometric series index: 41.8
Fisher's α: 3.745
geometric series k: 0.7449
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7077
Shannon's H: 1.47
Good's u: 0.9965
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