Wimborne St Giles Estate (open woodland)
Basic information
Sample name: Wimborne St Giles Estate (open woodland)
Reference: P. A. Robertson, M. I. A. Woodburn, and D. A. Hill. 1988. The effects of woodland management for pheasants on the abundance of butterflies in Dorset, England. Biological Conservation 45(3):159-167 [ER 831]
Geography
Country: United Kingdom
Coordinate: 50° 48' N, 1° 59' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "in South East Dorset" (coordinate based on Wimborne Minster)
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 17.1
CMT: 5.3
MAP: 816.0
Habitat comments: "mixed coniferous and deciduous woodland with an open canopy... Approximately half of these areas had been created specifically for pheasants"
climate data based on station 3862 (Bournemouth Airport)
climate data based on station 3862 (Bournemouth Airport)
Methods
Life forms: butterflies
Site length: 1600
Site width: 5
Sampling methods: belt transect,visual
Sample size: 244 individuals
Years: 1986
Days: 6
Seasons: summer
Sampling comments: Pollard walks: based on back-calculations from figures in the table, eight 200 m long, 5 m wide transects each surveyed on six "occasions"
Metadata
Sample number: 1320
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-21 11:27:43
Modified: 2015-02-21 00:27:43
Abundance distribution
16 species
5 singletons
total count 244
geometric series index: 27.3
Fisher's α: 3.839
geometric series k: 0.7506
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8376
Shannon's H: 2.1029
Good's u: 0.9796
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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