Park Ranger Station No. 1
Basic information
Sample name: Park Ranger Station No. 1

Sample aka: Everglades National Park

Reference: C. B. Worth. 1950. Observations on ectoparasites of some small mammals in Everglades National Park and Hillsborough County, Florida. Journal of Parasitology 36(4):326-335 [ER 963]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Florida


County: Miami-Dade


Coordinate: 25° 28' N, 80° 28' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "within a few miles' radius of Park Ranger Station No. 1, about 12 miles southwest of Homestead, Florida" (coordinate based on Homestead)
elevation is for Homestead and is from Pool et al. (1977)

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 23.5

MAP: 1643.0

Habitat comments: trapping was along a "two-mile stretch of road" with "moist grasslands that were once cultivated" as well as in "hammocks" that "are densely wooded and slightly elevated above the surrounding plains"
climate data are for Homestead and are from Pool et al. (1977, Biotropica)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: no design,Havahart traps,Sherman traps

Sample size: 146 individuals

Days: 15

Sampling comments: trapping was "for 15 consecutive nights" using "small metal Sherman traps; wooden box traps... and small and large wire-mesh 'Hav-a-hart'" traps. Stations were set at 0.2-mile intervals" along the road or "at the edge of, or within, hardwood hammocks"

Metadata
Sample number: 1450

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-02 13:33:12

Modified: 2015-12-01 08:20:10

Abundance distribution
5 species
1 singleton
total count 146
geometric series index: 7.0
Fisher's α: 1.002
geometric series k: 0.3365
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6094
Shannon's H: 1.1004
Good's u: 0.9932
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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