Campo Experimental Água Boa
Basic information
Sample name: Campo Experimental Água Boa

Reference: T. S. Peixoto, C. L. Praxedes, F. B. Baccaro, R. I. Barbosa, and M. Mouräo Jr. 2010. Composiçäo e riqueza de formigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) em savana e ambientes associados de Roraima. Revista Agroambiente 4(1):1-10 [ER 523]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Roraima


Coordinate: 2° 39' 33" N, 60° 49' 57" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: 35 km north of Boa Vista

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.8

MAP: 1250.0

Habitat comments: "savanna park with grassland"
climate data are based on de Barros and Honório (2007, Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz) and apply to Jardim das Copaíbas, 5 km south of Boa Vista; MAP 1100 to 1400 mm

Methods
Life forms: ants

Sites: 5

Site length: 500

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps,hand capture

Sample size: 223 individuals

Years: 2007

Nets or traps: 25

Sampling comments: 25 pitfall traps "distributed in five transects of 100 m, distanced 40 m to each other distributed in 100 m2" plus 25 sardine-baited pieces of paper in the same locations that were hand-collected; the number of sampling periods is somewhere between two and four

Metadata
Sample number: 893

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-05-03 10:29:27

Modified: 2014-06-28 01:06:21

Abundance distribution
25 species
6 singletons
total count 223
extrapolated richness: 39.7
Fisher's α: 7.221
geometric series k: 0.8518
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9057
Shannon's H: 2.7064
Good's u: 0.9732
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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