Picton Valley
Basic information
Sample name: Picton Valley
Reference: K. F. Michaels and P. B. McQuillan. 1995. Impact of commercial forest management on geophilous carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in tall, wet Eucalyptus obliqua forest in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Ecology 20:316-323 [ER 1049]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Tasmania
Coordinate: 43° 24' S, 147° 5' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "100 km south of Hobart and directly west ofthe Hartz Mountains" (coordinate based on Huon River, which is close to eight of the sites)
elevation 100 to 300 m
elevation 100 to 300 m
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAP: 1100.0
Habitat comments: "tall mixed forest largely dominated by Eucalyptus obliqua"
10 stands were felled (and soon after burnt) no earlier than 1968 and the other four were old growth
10 stands were felled (and soon after burnt) no earlier than 1968 and the other four were old growth
Methods
Life forms: ground beetles
Sites: 14
Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps,hand capture
Sample size: 2022 individuals
Years: 1993, 1994
Nets or traps: 252
Sampling comments: "At each site a 50 m long trapline was established, consisting of six clusters of three pitfall traps, each cluster being 10m apart... traps were emptied at 6 week intervals between July 1993 and April 1994... A supplementary hand collection was made adjacent to the transects in November 1993"
Metadata
Sample number: 1555
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-05-17 16:09:49
Modified: 2015-05-17 06:09:49
Abundance distribution
18 species
0 singletons
total count 2022
geometric series index: 21.0
Fisher's α: 2.722
geometric series k: 0.7112
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7888
Shannon's H: 1.8813
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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