Upper Wabash River Basin
Basic information
Sample name: Upper Wabash River Basin

Reference: C. E. Rizkalla and R. K. Swihart. 2006. Community structure and differential responses of aquatic turtles to agriculturally induced habitat fragmentation. Landscape Ecology 21:1361-1375 [ER 706]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Indiana



Coordinate: 40° 45' N, 86° 4' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: sampling area is roughly centered on Peru (basis of coordinate)

Environment
Habitat: temperate wetland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 23.4

CMT: -1.6

MAP: 998.0

Habitat comments: "Approximately 88% of the area is under agricultural use, primarily for corn and soybeans" but all sites are in wetlands
treated as non-fragmentary because the wetland sites are interconnected through a drainage basin
climate data based on station 72533 (Fort Wayne International Airport)

Methods
Life forms: turtles

Sites: 35

Sampling methods: no design,hoop nets

Sample size: 577 individuals

Years: 2001 - 2003

Sampling comments: "35 randomly selected 23-km2 cells"
mark-recapture methods were used to make sure counts were of individuals

Metadata
Sample number: 1023

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-08-08 20:34:02

Modified: 2015-02-23 23:49:26

Abundance distribution
8 species
0 singletons
total count 577
geometric series index: 9.0
Fisher's α: 1.314
geometric series k: 0.5292
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7035
Shannon's H: 1.4452
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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