Benta Wawasan (virgin jungle reserve, ground)
Basic information
Sample name: Benta Wawasan (virgin jungle reserve, ground)

Reference: H. L. Brant, R. M. Ewers, I. Vythilingam, C. Drakeley, S. Benedick, and J. D. Mumford. 2016. Vertical stratification of adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) within a tropical rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaria Journal 15(370):1-9 [ER 2320]
Geography
Country: Malaysia

State: Sabah



Coordinate: 4° 40' N, 117° 32' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "within the Benta Wawasan oil palm plantation" close to the Danum Valley Field Centre

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.2

CMT: 26.1

MAP: 1958.0

Habitat comments: "primary lowland dipterocarp rainforest... logged around the edge, but never logged in the steep interior"
climate based on station 96481 (Tawau)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: no design,hand capture

Sample size: 133 individuals

Years: 2014

Days: 4

Sampling comments: "Three survey points, with a minimum separation distance of 500 m, were selected... One tree was selected at each point... All data collection was carried out from April to July 2014, and mosquitoes were collected using human landing catches at ground and canopy height between 18:00 and 22:00 h. Four consecutive nights of collections were carried out... The collectors, with the aid of a red torch-light, aspirated mosquitoes off their own legs"

Metadata
Sample number: 2469

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-01-02 09:01:15

Modified: 2017-01-01 22:01:15

Abundance distribution
14 species
9 singletons
total count 133
geometric series index: 44.9
Fisher's α: 3.948
geometric series k: 0.7118
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5730
Shannon's H: 1.3517
Good's u: 0.9323
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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