Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (canopy)
Basic information
Sample name: Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (canopy)

Reference: J. T. Longino and N. M. Nadkarni. 1990. A comparison of ground and canopy leaf litter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a neotropical montane forest. Psyche 97:81-93 [ER 502]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica


Coordinate: 10° 18' N, 84° 48' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: canopy

MAT: 18.5

MAP: 2450.0

Habitat comments: MAP stated in text; MAT based on Anchukaitis et al. (2008, JGR)

Methods
Life forms: ants

Sampling methods: Winkler apparatus

Sample size: 1050 individuals

Years: 1984, 1987

Nets or traps: 24

Sampling comments: collection employed "Winkler litter-sifting and arthropod extraction devices"; there were "twelve paired samples" with one sample "taken from the inner crown regions of a canopy tree and the other from the ground immediately below"

Metadata
Sample number: 870

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-22 15:09:07

Modified: 2014-05-04 05:58:51

Abundance distribution
21 species
6 singletons
total count 1050
geometric series index: 33.9
Fisher's α: 3.719
geometric series k: 0.7424
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7622
Shannon's H: 1.8174
Good's u: 0.9943
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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