Spata
Basic information
Sample name: Spata

Reference: S. Antonatos, N. Emmanouel, A. Fantinou, A. Tsagkarakis, A. Anagnostopoulos, and D. Ntampakis. 2014. Seasonal population fluctuation and spatial distribution of Orthoptera in two grassland areas of Attica - Greece. Journal of Natural History 48(11-12):661-674 [ER 2150]
Geography
Country: Greece


Coordinate: 37° 56' 42" N, 23° 56' 21" E
Geography comments: "close to Spata... at the western perimeter of the Athens International Airport... The size of the sampling station was about 5 ha and was part of a larger grassland site."

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.6

CMT: 8.9

MAP: 316.0

Habitat comments: "in a mild Mediterranean climate... The plant community... consisted mainly of plant species of the families Poaceae, Fabaceae and Asteraceae"
CMT 9.3 and 8.6, WMT 29.4 and 27.9, and MAP 330 and 301 mm during the two sampling years

Methods
Life forms: orthopterans

Sampling methods: line transect,sweep nets

Sample size: 4879 individuals

Years: 2007, 2008

Sampling comments: "Orthopteran communities were sampled using a 40-cm diameter sweep net... Samples were taken every 10 days from March to October and every 20–30 days from November to February in both years. The collector walked along a straight line on the transect"
internally consistent percentage data are given

Metadata
Sample number: 2142

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-07-24 20:24:11

Modified: 2016-07-24 10:24:26

Abundance distribution
22 species
4 singletons
total count 4879
geometric series index: 29.6
Fisher's α: 2.971
geometric series k: 0.6900
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7183
Shannon's H: 1.7894
Good's u: 0.9992
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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