Reserva Biologíca San Francisco (rainfall excluded, 96 hour extraction)
Basic information
Sample name: Reserva Biologíca San Francisco (rainfall excluded, 96 hour extraction)

Reference: T. D. Delsinne and T. M. Arias-Penna. 2012. Influence of leaf litter moisture on the efficiency of the Winkler method for extracting ants. Journal of Insect Science 12(57):1-13 [ER 490]
Geography
Country: Ecuador

State: Zamora-Chinchipe


Coordinate: 3° 58' S, 79° 5' W
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: leaf litter

MAT: 15.5

MAP: 2100.0

Habitat comments: "evergreen upper montane forest"
MAP stated in text; MAT based on Volland et al. (2011, in Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology)

Methods
Life forms: ants

Sampling methods: no design,Winkler apparatus

Sample size: 4049 individuals

Years: 2010

Nets or traps: 3

Sampling comments: three "3 × 3 m plots, spaced 2 to 20 m apart"; collection was by the Winkler extraction method with the apparatus protected from rain and left open for 96 hours

Metadata
Sample number: 854

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-20 11:22:59

Modified: 2014-05-04 06:02:07

Abundance distribution
24 species
4 singletons
total count 4049
geometric series index: 33.9
Fisher's α: 3.386
geometric series k: 0.7435
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8196
Shannon's H: 1.9160
Good's u: 0.9990
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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