Sample name: Lüchun County

Reference: Z. Lu, B. D. Hoffmann, and Y. Chen. 2016. Can reforested and plantation habitats effectively conserve SW China's ant biodiversity?. Biodiversity and Conservation 25:753-770 [ER 2123]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture,selective logging

MAT: 19.3

MAP: 1514.0

Habitat comments: "evergreen broad-leaved forests" that have "a history of high human usage including logging and lac-scale farming which typically involves cutting the shrub layer and planting corn between trees"

Life forms: ants

Sampling methods: line transect,sweep nets,pitfall traps

Sample size: 388 individuals

Years: 2006

Days: 5

Nets or traps: 40

Net or trap nights: 200

Sampling comments: four plots; "Sampling was conducted during sunny and warm weather... in June 2006... We established one 90 m transect in each plot to sample both epigeic and arboreal ants. Epigeic ants were sampled using 10 pitfall traps spaced 10 m apart along the transect... Traps were operated for 5 days... Arboreal ants were sampled by sweep netting and foliage shaking. Ten sweep net samples were collected along each transect"

Sample number: 2102

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-06-16 15:18:57

Modified: 2016-06-17 00:47:26