Xitiange
Basic information
Sample name: Xitiange

Reference: Y. Liu, M. Duan, X. Zhang, X. Zhang, Z. Yu, and J. C. Axmacher. 2015. Effects of plant diversity, habitat and agricultural landscape structure on the functional diversity of carabid assemblages in the North China Plain. Insect Conservation and Diversity 8:163-176 [ER 2897]
Geography
Country: China

State: Beijing


County: Miyun


Coordinate: 40° 23' 0" N, 116° 44' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "at Xitiange village in Northeastern Miyun County"

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 11.5

MAP: 700.0

Habitat comments: "agricultural land accounts for about 55% of the total area, while residential and roads account for a further 21%... The most common agricultural crops are winter wheat/summer maize and peanuts, with large areas also used as fruit orchards. Semi-natural land... accounts for about 12% of the sample land-scape"

Methods
Life forms: ground beetles

Sites: 6

Sampling methods: no design,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1750 individuals

Years: 2010

Days: 36

Seasons: spring,summer,autumn

Nets or traps: 30

Net or trap nights: 1080

Sampling comments: "Beetles were sampled over periods of 6 days every month between the beginning of May and the end of September 2010 using a total of five pitfall traps at each plot" and there were six plots in distinct habitats

Metadata
Sample number: 3106

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-11-02 18:33:32

Modified: 2018-11-02 07:33:32

Abundance distribution
17 species
4 singletons
total count 1750
geometric series index: 24.4
Fisher's α: 2.612
geometric series k: 0.6607
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7267
Shannon's H: 1.5914
Good's u: 0.9977
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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