Devagiri
Basic information
Sample name: Devagiri

Reference: S. K. Thomas and P. Aswathi. 2012. Potential of rubber litter dwelling ants as biocontrol agent of home invading nuisance pest, Luprops tristis. Journal of Biopesticides 5(supplement):188-191 [ER 1159]
Geography
Country: India

State: Kerala


Coordinate: 11° 15' N, 75° 46' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "near by the Devagiri College campus, Calicut" (apparently meaning St. Joseph's College, Devagiri: coordinate based on Kozhikode)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: plantation

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 28.0

MAP: 1125.0

Habitat comments: in "rubber plantations"
"Annual temperature 24–32 0C... average rainfall 750–1500 mm/year" according to Venugopal et al. (2012)

Methods
Life forms: ants

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: no design,pitfall traps

Sample size: 394 individuals

Years: 2011

Days: 10

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 100

Sampling comments: sampling was "from May to July, 2011" with "A set of 10 pit fall traps... kept 20 meters apart from each other... Sampling was done for 12 hrs... Each experiment was replicated 10 times"

Metadata
Sample number: 1685

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-05 16:22:01

Modified: 2015-10-04 03:59:25

Abundance distribution
6 species
0 singletons
total count 394
geometric series index: 6.7
Fisher's α: 1.004
geometric series k: 0.4152
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7241
Shannon's H: 1.4433
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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