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Brownhill Creek Recreation Park (first season)
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Basic information
Sample name: Brownhill Creek Recreation Park (first season)

Reference: N. Collier, D. A. MacKay, K. Benkendorff, A. D. Austrin, and S. M. Carthew. 2006. Butterfly communities in South Australian urban reserves: Estimating abundance and diversity using the Pollard walk. Austral Ecology 31:282-290 [ER 679]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: South Australia


Coordinate: 34° 59' 18" S, 138° 37' 43" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: coordinate based on Belair National Park

Environment
Habitat: Mediterranean woodland

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 21.8

CMT: 11.3

MAP: 449.0

Habitat comments: "heavily infested with woody weeds" such as Salix, Fraxinus, and Rubus "as well as weedy perennial shrubs, annual grasses and forbs"; there are "numerous houses located along the road and along the banks of the creek"
climate data based on station 94672 (Adelaide Airport)

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Site length: 1740

Sampling methods: belt transect,hand capture,visual

Sample size: 1218 captures or sightings

Years: 2003, 2004

Sampling comments: Pollard walk (visual belt transect with some hand captures)

Metadata
Sample number: 1310

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-20 15:12:43

Modified: 2018-06-30 10:53:32

Abundance distribution
15 species
1 singleton
total count 1218
extrapolated richness: 18.7
Fisher's α: 2.409
geometric series k: 0.6503
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8076
Shannon's H: 1.9242
Good's u: 0.9992
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Current reference: Shotwell 1968 (ER 3992)