Inner Mongolian Grasland Ecosystem Research Station (Anerolepidium chinese steppe, ungrazed)
Basic information
Sample name: Inner Mongolian Grasland Ecosystem Research Station (Anerolepidium chinese steppe, ungrazed)

Reference: L. Kang and M. Zhang. 1996. Grasshopper species-area relationship on ungrazed and overgrazed grasslands. Chinese Biodiversity 4:15-22 [ER 2155]
Geography
Country: China

State: Nei Mongol


Coordinate: 43° 47' 0" N, 116° 34' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "Anerolepidium chinense steppe... protected or restored by fence from grazing for over ten years"

Methods
Life forms: orthopterans

Sites: 1

Site area: 0.005

Sampling methods: no design,cage traps

Sample size: 221 individuals

Years: 1994

Seasons: summer,autumn

Sampling comments: "Each grasshopper sampling required 3 days, and was performed in August and September of 1994. Grasshoppers were sampled by one 1 m2 cubical cage at each site for fifty samples (50 m2 in area in total). FIve times of samplings were randomly conducted in each site, in different times during the day"

Metadata
Sample number: 2152

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-07-28 10:52:28

Modified: 2016-07-28 00:52:28

Abundance distribution
11 species
2 singletons
total count 221
extrapolated richness: 16.9
Fisher's α: 2.434
geometric series k: 0.6012
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4484
Shannon's H: 1.1105
Good's u: 0.9910
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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