Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station (orchard brome)
Basic information
Sample name: Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station (orchard brome)

Reference: D. A. Wilbur and R. F. Fritz. 1940. Grasshopper populations (Orthoptera, Acrididae) of typical pastures in the Bluestem region of Kansas. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 13(3):86-100 [ER 2164]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Kansas


Coordinate: 39° 12' N, 96° 36' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: none given (the Station was in Manhattan, basis of coordinate, and is apparently not the same as Konza Prairie Biological Station)

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "The orchard-brome grass pasture consisted of those cultivated grasses recommended for seeding in this area"

Methods
Life forms: orthopterans

Sampling methods: no design,sweep nets

Sample size: 2614 individuals

Years: 1933 - 1939

Sampling comments: "Each year the collections were started during April... and were continued throughout the growing season... Semi-weekly collections were intended but occasionally rains interfered... collecting was done by means of a specially constructed, long-handled, square net, the mouth of which was one square foot in area. Twenty-five sweeps of this net in each plot, each sweep covering about three feet, constituted a collection"

Metadata
Sample number: 2170

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-08-03 14:43:23

Modified: 2016-08-03 04:43:23

Abundance distribution
20 species
6 singletons
total count 2614
extrapolated richness: 33.2
Fisher's α: 2.946
geometric series k: 0.6920
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6999
Shannon's H: 1.4576
Good's u: 0.9977
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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