Ndumu Game Reserve (canopy)
Basic information
Sample name: Ndumu Game Reserve (canopy)

Reference: B. M. McIntosh, P. G. Jupp, and J. de Sousa. 1972. Mosquitoes feeding at two horizontal levels in gallery forest in Natal, South Africa, with reference to possible vectors of chikungunya virus. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 35(1):81-90 [ER 2770]
Geography
Country: South Africa

State: KwaZulu-Natal



Coordinate: 26° 55' S, 32° 16' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in the Ndumu Game Reserve in the coastal plain of northern Natal" (coordinate based on Ndumo Game Reserve)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: canopy

Habitat comments: "gallery forest along the Usutu River"

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,baited,other traps,hand capture

Sample size: 2152 individuals

Years: 1964 - 1967

Days: 64

Sampling comments: "Collections... were made simultaneously in the canopy and at ground level in this forest during 8 periodic visits, each of about 8 days, from November, 1964 to April 1967... Mosquitoes were collected using either man, monkey or fowl as bait... For the majority of collections three sites were used, evenly spaced over about 1,5 kilometres of gallery forest"
test tubes were used to collection mosquitoes landing on humans and "lard-can" traps with a "mosquito gauze cone at each end" were used otherwise

Metadata
Sample number: 2964

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-05-27 19:10:09

Modified: 2018-05-27 09:10:09

Abundance distribution
21 species
4 singletons
total count 2152
geometric series index: 29.9
Fisher's α: 3.229
geometric series k: 0.7101
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7591
Shannon's H: 1.8593
Good's u: 0.9981
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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