Upper Training National Institute of Saharian Agronomy
Basic information
Sample name: Upper Training National Institute of Saharian Agronomy

Sample aka: Ouargla Oasis

Reference: H. Belhadj, B. Doumandji-Mitiche, and A. Guendouz-Benrima. 2014. Orthopterologic fauna of Ouargla Oasis. International Journal of Zoology and Research 4(4):11-26 [ER 2159]
Geography
Country: Algeria

State: Ouargla


Coordinate: 31° 57' N, 5° 19' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: no details given: coordinate based on Ouargla

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Altered habitat: plantation

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "in saharian bioclimatic stage with soft winter" with sampling in "a modern palm grove... The ground is occupied only by date palm and by spontaneous plants"

Methods
Life forms: orthopterans

Sampling methods: quadrat,other nets,hand capture

Sample size: 789 individuals

Years: 2001, 2002

Sampling comments: "We used methods of quadrates... Five samplings were realized inside of each station, into squares of 9m2 giving 3 m side, delimited by a string of 12 m length. Squares site is random... those which escape from sampling area are captured with mower net. Quadrates were realized once fortnight during all experimentation period going from September 2001 until August 2002"

Metadata
Sample number: 2159

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-07-28 13:40:49

Modified: 2016-07-28 03:40:49

Abundance distribution
14 species
1 singleton
total count 789
geometric series index: 18.7
Fisher's α: 2.418
geometric series k: 0.6445
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7687
Shannon's H: 1.7257
Good's u: 0.9987
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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