Sample name: National Park Donau-Auen

Reference: C. Zittra and J. Waringer. 2014. Species inventory, ecology, and seasonal distribution patterns of Culicidae (Insecta: Diptera) in the National Park Donau-Auen (Lower Austria). Aquatic Insects 36(1):63-77 [ER 2196]

Habitat: temperate wetland

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 9.8

MAP: 533.0

Habitat comments: "mainly influenced by the Pannonian climate... with precipitation maxima in summer and minima in spring and autumn"; the park "provides an enormous variety of different aquatic habitats, ranging from oxbow lakes, temporary side arms, and sloughs to small water-filled tree holes"
climate data are for Schwechat and are from Suchenwirth et al. (2012, Wetlands Ecol Manage)

Life forms: mosquitoes

Sites: 20

Sampling methods: no design,other nets

Sample size: 218 individuals

Years: 2011

Seasons: spring,summer,autumn

Sampling comments: "Twenty sampling sites were chosen at the northern shore of the River Danube... From March to October 2011" the sites "were sampled at regular intervals... Adults were caught strictly above the water surface and along the shoreline of their breeding habitats with a hand net"
male and female counts are given separately

Sample number: 2230

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-08-15 20:17:42

Modified: 2020-06-05 09:07:11