Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (native)
Basic information
Sample name: Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (native)

Reference: T. M. Radtke, J. R. N. Glasier, and S. D. Wilson. 2014. Species composition and abundance of ants and other invertebrates in stands of crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) and native grasslands in the northern Great Plains. Canadian Journal of Zoology 92:49-55 [ER 482]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Montana


Coordinate: 48° 28' N, 104° 22' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "5 km southeast of Medicine Lake, Montana"

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: recent fire

WMT: 19.9

CMT: -13.1

MAP: 330.0

Habitat comments: native grasslands last burned in 2005

Methods
Life forms: ants

Sites: 5

Site area: 0.002

Sampling methods: quadrat,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1496 individuals

Days: 2

Seasons: summer

Nets or traps: 25

Net or trap nights: 50

Sampling comments: 25 pitfall traps in five arrays roughly 2.25 m on a side sampled on two occasions a month apart for 24 hours on each occasion

Metadata
Sample number: 844

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-19 12:43:18

Modified: 2015-10-03 23:05:50

Abundance distribution
15 species
1 singleton
total count 1496
extrapolated richness: 18.3
Fisher's α: 2.318
geometric series k: 0.6460
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7898
Shannon's H: 1.8340
Good's u: 0.9993
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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