Southwest Minnesota
Basic information
Sample name: Southwest Minnesota

Reference: K. F. Reeder, D. M. Debinski, and B. J. Danielson. 2005. Factors affecting butterfly use of filter strips in Midwestern USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 109:40-47 [ER 829]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Minnesota


Coordinate: 44° 1' N, 95° 11' W
Coordinate basis: based on political unit

Geography comments: "Jackson, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Nobles and Brown counties" (Cottonwood is in the middle and is the basis of the coordinate)

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 22.7

CMT: -6.4

MAP: 629.0

Habitat comments: "This region is dominated by corn and soybean production"
climate data based on station 72651 (Sioux Falls airport)

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sites: 49

Site length: 9800

Site width: 5

Sampling methods: belt transect,visual

Sample size: 1701 individuals

Years: 2002, 2003

Days: 97

Seasons: summer

Sampling comments: 49 200 x 5 m transects apparently each visited on two days
exact days of sampling are listed

Metadata
Sample number: 1178

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-09-30 20:01:10

Modified: 2014-09-30 10:01:10

Abundance distribution
28 species
6 singletons
total count 1701
geometric series index: 41.9
Fisher's α: 4.761
geometric series k: 0.7923
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8195
Shannon's H: 2.0853
Good's u: 0.9965
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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