Howard Springs Road
Basic information
Sample name: Howard Springs Road

Reference: N. Kurucz, T. J. Gray, J. Burrow, and P. Whelan. 2010. A confirmed case of Kunjin virus disease encephalitis acquired in rural Darwin, NT-The mosquito story. Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin 17(4):5-10 [ER 2310]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Northern Territory


Coordinate: -12.47° S, 131.04° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Geography comments: estimated from satellite photo reproduced in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.2

MAP: 1621.0

Habitat comments: none given, but photos show open forest and the area's vegetation is described as savanna in various papers
climate data are for Howard Springs and are from Kanniah et al. (2011, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,baited,other traps

Sample size: 5039 individuals

Sampling comments: one "adult mosquito CO baited encephalitis virus surveillance (EVS)" trap set "on 5 July 2010" and "collected on 6 July"

Metadata
Sample number: 2450

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-12-31 09:29:23

Modified: 2016-12-30 22:29:23

Abundance distribution
14 species
5 singletons
total count 5039
geometric series index: 25.9
Fisher's α: 1.759
geometric series k: 0.5551
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6407
Shannon's H: 1.1529
Good's u: 0.9990
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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