Ndumu Game Reserve (ground)
Basic information
Sample name: Ndumu Game Reserve (ground)

Reference: B. M. McIntosh, P. G. Jupp, and J. de Sousa. 1972. Mosquitoes feeding at two horizontal levels in gallery forest in Natal, South Africa, with reference to possible vectors of chikungunya virus. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 35(1):81-90 [ER 2770]
Geography
Country: South Africa

State: KwaZulu-Natal


Coordinate: 26° 55' S, 32° 16' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in the Ndumu Game Reserve in the coastal plain of northern Natal" (coordinate based on Ndumo Game Reserve)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "gallery forest along the Usutu River"

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,baited,other traps,hand capture

Sample size: 17805 individuals

Years: 1964 - 1967

Days: 64

Sampling comments: "Collections... were made simultaneously in the canopy and at ground level in this forest during 8 periodic visits, each of about 8 days, from November, 1964 to April 1967... Mosquitoes were collected using either man, monkey or fowl as bait... For the majority of collections three sites were used, evenly spaced over about 1,5 kilometres of gallery forest"
test tubes were used to collection mosquitoes landing on humans and "lard-can" traps with a "mosquito gauze cone at each end" were used otherwise

Metadata
Sample number: 2963

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-05-27 19:03:07

Modified: 2018-05-27 09:03:07

Abundance distribution
30 species
8 singletons
total count 17805
geometric series index: 45.8
Fisher's α: 3.517
geometric series k: 0.7276
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5944
Shannon's H: 1.2872
Good's u: 0.9996
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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