Wimborne St Giles Estate (open woodland)
Basic information
Sample name: Wimborne St Giles Estate (open woodland)

Reference: P. A. Robertson, M. I. A. Woodburn, and D. A. Hill. 1988. The effects of woodland management for pheasants on the abundance of butterflies in Dorset, England. Biological Conservation 45(3):159-167 [ER 831]
Geography
Country: United Kingdom

Coordinate: 51° 48' N, 2° 59' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in South East Dorset" (coordinate based on Wimborne Minster)

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Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 17.1

CMT: 5.3

MAP: 816.0

Habitat comments: "mixed coniferous and deciduous woodland with an open canopy... Approximately half of these areas had been created specifically for pheasants"
climate data based on station 3862 (Bournemouth Airport)

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Site length: 1600.0

Site width: 5.0

Sampling methods: belt transect, visual

Sample size: 244 individuals

Years: 1986

Days: 6

Seasons: summer

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: Pollard walks: based on back-calculations from figures in the table, eight 200 m long, 5 m wide transects each surveyed on six "occasions"

Metadata
Sample no: 1320

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-21 11:27:43

Modified: 2015-02-21 00:27:43

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
16 species
5 singletons
total count 244
geometric series index: 27.3
Fisher's α: 3.839
geometric series k: 0.7506
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8376
Shannon's H: 2.1029
Good's u: 0.9796
Register
Pieris brassicae 4
Pieris rapae 16
Pieris napi 2
Melanargia galathea 35
Gonepteryx rhamni 2
Pararge aegeria 15
Maniola jurtina 36
Lasiommata megera 1
Pyronia tithonus 13
Aphantopus hyperantus 74
Cynthia cardui 1
Lagoda camilla 1
Boloria euphrosyne 1
Argynnis paphia 15
Ochlodes venatus 27
"Ochlodes venata"
Thymelicus sylvestris 1