Lighthouse Tract
Basic information
Sample name: Lighthouse Tract

Reference: S. S. Mitra, P. A. Buckley, F. G. Buckley, and H. S. Ginsberg. 2010. Highly variable acquisition rates of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) by birds on an Atlantic barrier island. Journal of Medical Entomology 47(6):1019-1027 [ER 766]
Geography
Country: United States

State: New York


County: Suffolk


Coordinate: 40° 42' N, 72° 59' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "at the Lighthouse Tract of Fire Island National Seashore" (coordinate based on Fire Island National Seashore)

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 23.9

CMT: -0.4

MAP: 1074.0

Habitat comments: "natural vegetation... with low (largely dune) vegetation seaward, and scattered native Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida Miller) groves alternating with mixed native deciduous shrub thickets (Myrica– Rhus–Ilex) bayward"
climate data based on statino 72504 (Stratford airport)

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sites: 2

Sampling methods: mist nets

Sample size: 482 individuals

Years: 1997 - 1999

Sampling comments: one site was in a pitch pine grove and the other in a shrub thicket
counts are only of birds recaptured within four days, so there may be an IQ effect
"Up to 14 nylon mist nets, 12 m long, 3 m high, with four shelves and 36-mm mesh" were used in the pine site and "a single bay-to-ocean net lane" with "up to 16 nets" in the scrub site but sampling effort is vaguely indicated and irrelevant given that only recaptures are reported

Metadata
Sample number: 1109

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-08-27 09:50:34

Modified: 2018-06-30 10:52:19

Abundance distribution
15 species
1 singleton
total count 482
geometric series index: 18.8
Fisher's α: 2.937
geometric series k: 0.6610
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5216
Shannon's H: 1.3671
Good's u: 0.9979
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Dumetella carolinensis32935.3 g insectivore-frugivore
Pipilo erythrophthalmus2741.3 g insectivore-granivore
Parkesia noveboracensis18 insectivore
"Seiurus noveboracensis"
Geothlypis trichas262.1 g insectivore
Catharus guttatus530.1 g insectivore-frugivore
Coccyzus erythropthalmus350.9 g
Turdus migratorius278.5 g insectivore-frugivore
Melospiza melodia81.6 g insectivore-granivore
Thryothorus ludovicianus84.6 g insectivore
Poecile atricapillus410.8 g
Toxostoma rufum668.8 g insectivore
Setophaga ruticilla198.4 g insectivore
Setophaga palmarum1
Sitta canadensis179.8 g insectivore
Melospiza georgiana916.1 g insectivore-granivore