Sample name: Houston

Reference: R. J. Higgins and B. S. Lindgren. 2015. Seral changes in ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) assemblages in the sub-boreal forests of British Columbia. Insect Conservation and Diversity 8(4):337-347 [ER 1296]

Habitat: temperate coniferous forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: -10.5

MAP: 450.0

Habitat comments: "sub-boreal spruce biogeoclimatic zone and moist-cold subzone, variant 2 (SBSmc2)... These stands were lodgepole pine-leading"
MAT and MAP (range 400 to 500) based on Geertsema et al. (2008, in Locat et al.)

Life forms: ants

Sites: 17

Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps

Sample size: 685 individuals

Years: 2003 - 2005

Days: 14

Seasons: summer

Nets or traps: 340

Net or trap nights: 4760

Sampling comments: "all sampling" occurred "between late June and mid-August. Non-harvested plots and 8–10 year post-harvest plots were sampled in 2003, 13–15 and 23–25 year post-harvest plots in 2004, and 2–3 year post-harvest plots in 2005"; there were "three replicate sites" in three plots and four in two (the non-harvested and 8-10 year sites) and sampling was with "Nordlander pitfall traps... Four 80 m long transects were randomly positioned within each site... Pitfall traps were positioned every 20 m" (i.e., 17 sites x 4 transects x 5 traps = 340 traps) and were sampled on two occasions for two weeks at a time

Sample number: 1785

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-10-04 16:21:07

Modified: 2015-10-04 05:21:07