Savannah River Site (2011)
Basic information
Sample name: Savannah River Site (2011)
Reference: P. G. Hahn and J. L. Orrock. 2015. Land-use history alters contemporary insect herbivore community composition and decouples plant-herbivore relationships. Journal of Animal Ecology 84:745-754 [ER 2177]
Geography
Country: United States
State: South Carolina
Coordinate: 33° 15' N, 81° 40' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: sampling sites are scattered about the Savannah River Site (basis of coordinate)
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical coniferous forest
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "upland longleaf pine woodlands" with individual collecting sites being either "non-agricultural or post-agricultural"
Methods
Life forms: orthopterans
Sites: 36
Sampling methods: no design,sweep nets
Sample size: 457 individuals
Years: 2011
Days: 15
Seasons: summer
Sampling comments: there were 36 sites and "We used sweep nets to sample grasshopper assemblages... At each site, we established three 5 m 9 5 m plots, separated by >5 m... The three sweep samples per plot and the three plots (nine total subsamples) were pooled for each site... Sampling was conducted between 23 July and 6 August 2011"
Metadata
Sample number: 2199
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-08-05 19:46:11
Modified: 2016-08-05 09:46:11
Abundance distribution
19 species
9 singletons
total count 457
geometric series index: 42.7
Fisher's α: 4.003
geometric series k: 0.7548
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7716
Shannon's H: 1.7580
Good's u: 0.9803
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Register
| Schistocerca alutacea | 158 | |
| "could" include some S. damnifica and S. american nymphs | ||
| Orphulella pelidna | 31 | |
| Melanoplus angustipennis | 106 | |
| Melanoplus spp. | 96 | |
| "scudderi and sp. puer group" | ||
| Arphia xanthoptera | 12 | |
| Conocephalus sp. | 32 | |
| Phaneropterinae indet. | 3 | |
| Scudderia sp. | 5 | |
| Eotettix pusillus | 1 | |
| Hesperotettix viridis brevipennis | 2 | |
| Hippiscus ocelote | 1 | |
| Melanoplus attenuatus | 1 | |
| Melanoplus impudicus | 1 | |
| Melanoplus keeleri | 1 | |
| Melanoplus sp. nigrescens group | 1 | |
| Mermiria picta | 1 | |
| Paratylotropidia beutenmuelleri | 1 | |
| Spharagemon marmorata picta | 3 | |
| Schistocerca damnifica | 1 | |