Usina Säo José (Atlantic Forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Usina Säo José (Atlantic Forest)
Reference: M. P. C. J. Santos, A. F. Carrano-Moreira, and J. B. Torres. 2012. Diversidade de formigas epigeicas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) em floresta ombrófila densa e em cultivo de cana-de-açùcar, no município de Igarassu, PE. Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Agrarias 7(4):648-656 [ER 524]
Geography
Country: Brazil
State: Pernambuco
Coordinate: 7° 54' S, 35° 5' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: 40 km north of Recife
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: fragment
Substrate: leaf litter
MAT: 24.0
MAP: 1392.0
Habitat comments: fragments of Atlantic Forest of unclear size but 66 of 247 km2 in the area consists of apparently natural mata and capoeira, which suggests that most are well under 100 ha
Köppen zone "AS'" (this may mean Af)
Köppen zone "AS'" (this may mean Af)
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 3
Site area: 0.048
Sampling methods: pitfall traps,hand capture
Sample size: 2406 individuals
Days: 78
Nets or traps: 27
Net or trap nights: 2106
Sampling comments: three transects each having three pitfall traps spaced 20 m apart on each of three 160 m2 quadrats and sampled for five to seven days during each of 13 consecutive months; additionally, 18 samples were collected from the leaf litter using burlap bags each month
Metadata
Sample number: 895
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-05-03 13:30:45
Modified: 2015-02-24 00:33:08
Abundance distribution
80 species
26 singletons
total count 2406
geometric series index: 141.8
Fisher's α: 15.922
geometric series k: 0.9227
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8995
Shannon's H: 2.9546
Good's u: 0.9892
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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