Wolfe Wildlife Refuge
Basic information
Sample name: Wolfe Wildlife Refuge
Reference: L. F. Chaves, G. L. Hamer, E. D. Walker, W. M. Brown, M. O. Ruiz, and U. D. Kitron. 2011. Climatic variability and landscape heterogeneity impact urban mosquito diversity and vector abundance and infection. Ecosphere 2(70):1-21 [ER 2288]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Coordinate: 41° 43' N, 87° 45' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: none given; in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn (coordinate based on Oak Lawn)
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: fragment
Protection: wildlife protected area
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 9.9
WMT: 23.6
CMT: -5.7
MAP: 980.0
Habitat comments: none given; the refuge is about 2 ha surrounding a lake in an urban area
climate data are for Kankakee and are from Busemeyer et al. (2010, Castanea)
climate data are for Kankakee and are from Busemeyer et al. (2010, Castanea)
Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes
Sampling methods: no design,baited,light traps
Sample size: 6464 individuals
Years: 2005 - 2008
Net or trap nights: 178
Sampling comments: "Mosquitoes were collected from field sites once every 2–3 weeks from mid-May to mid-October, 2005–2008" using "up to four CO2-baited CDC miniature light traps with traps distributed at ground and tree canopy level" (number of traps used on average unclear)
Metadata
Sample number: 2393
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-12-26 13:22:09
Modified: 2020-05-30 10:37:47
Abundance distribution
14 species
4 singletons
total count 6464
extrapolated richness: 20.4
Fisher's α: 1.698
geometric series k: 0.5320
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5920
Shannon's H: 1.1283
Good's u: 0.9994
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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