Wimborne St Giles Estate (pheasant rides)
Basic information
Sample name: Wimborne St Giles Estate (pheasant rides)
Reference: P. A. Robertson, M. I. A. Woodburn, and D. A. Hill. 1988. The effects of woodland management for pheasants on the abundance of butterflies in Dorset, England. Biological Conservation 45(3):159-167 [ER 831]
Geography
Country: United Kingdom
Coordinate: 50° 48' N, 1° 59' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "in South East Dorset" (coordinate based on Wimborne Minster)
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: pasture
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 17.1
CMT: 5.3
MAP: 816.0
Habitat comments: "clearings within the woodland, created and managed" for "pheasant shoots" and "cleared of scrub every three years"
climate data based on station 3862 (Bournemouth Airport)
climate data based on station 3862 (Bournemouth Airport)
Methods
Life forms: butterflies
Site length: 800
Site width: 5
Sampling methods: belt transect,visual
Sample size: 429 individuals
Years: 1986
Days: 6
Seasons: summer
Sampling comments: Pollard walks: based on back-calculations from figures in the table, four 200 m long, 5 m wide transects each surveyed on six "occasions"
Metadata
Sample number: 1180
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-10-01 15:09:48
Modified: 2015-02-21 00:22:57
Abundance distribution
19 species
3 singletons
total count 429
extrapolated richness: 27.0
Fisher's α: 4.071
geometric series k: 0.7602
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8303
Shannon's H: 2.1561
Good's u: 0.9930
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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