Wolfe Wildlife Refuge
Basic information
Sample name: Wolfe Wildlife Refuge

Reference: L. F. Chaves, G. L. Hamer, E. D. Walker, W. M. Brown, M. O. Ruiz, and U. D. Kitron. 2011. Climatic variability and landscape heterogeneity impact urban mosquito diversity and vector abundance and infection. Ecosphere 2(70):1-21 [ER 2288]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Illinois


County: Cook


Coordinate: 41° 43' N, 87° 45' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: none given; in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn (coordinate based on Oak Lawn)

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 9.9

WMT: 23.6

CMT: -5.7

MAP: 980.0

Habitat comments: none given; the refuge is about 2 ha surrounding a lake in an urban area
climate data are for Kankakee and are from Busemeyer et al. (2010, Castanea)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,baited,light traps

Sample size: 6464 individuals

Years: 2005 - 2008

Net or trap nights: 178

Sampling comments: "Mosquitoes were collected from field sites once every 2–3 weeks from mid-May to mid-October, 2005–2008" using "up to four CO2-baited CDC miniature light traps with traps distributed at ground and tree canopy level" (number of traps used on average unclear)

Metadata
Sample number: 2393

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-12-26 13:22:09

Modified: 2020-05-30 10:37:47

Abundance distribution
14 species
4 singletons
total count 6464
geometric series index: 20.4
Fisher's α: 1.698
geometric series k: 0.5320
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5920
Shannon's H: 1.1283
Good's u: 0.9994
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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