Samanar Hills (September - November 2006)
Basic information
Sample name: Samanar Hills (September - November 2006)

Reference: K. S. Malar, R. Gopal, and R. Selvaraj Pandian. 2015. Influential inflicts of monsoon and agricultural practices among the population density of mosquitoes in the agro-rural villages of Madurai. International Journal of Mosquito Research 2(1):42-46 [ER 2216]
Geography
Country: India

State: Tamil Nadu



Coordinate: 9° 55' N, 78° 3' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in the villages surrounding the Samanar hills, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India" (coordinate based on Samanar Hills)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 28.5

MAP: 765.0

Habitat comments: "The agro rural areas [meaning in the study area] may be severely affected with the onset of monsoon rains at different stages of rice cultivation"; seasonal rainfall in this area indicates dry broadleaf forest
climate data are for Theni District to the west of Madurai and are from Udayakumar et al. (2014, Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design

Sample size: 9682 individuals

Sampling comments: "adult and larvae mosquitoes were collected and reared to adults respectively" and collections were "based upon the Southwest and Northeast monsoon rains and the water released from Periyar dam for irrigation practices in the villages"

Metadata
Sample number: 2256

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-09-04 14:59:46

Modified: 2016-12-18 06:07:50

Abundance distribution
31 species
3 singletons
total count 9682
geometric series index: 35.8
Fisher's α: 3.975
geometric series k: 0.7581
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6546
Shannon's H: 1.5047
Good's u: 0.9997
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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