Herowana
Basic information
Sample name: Herowana

Reference: S. Oppel. 2006. Comparison of two Odonata communities from a natural and a modified rainforest in Papua New Guinea. International Journal of Odonatology 9(1):89-102 [ER 1128]
Geography
Country: Papua New Guinea



Coordinate: 6° 43' S, 145° 5' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "ca 10 km east of CMBRS" (coordinate based on Crater Mountain Biological Research Station)
"The village was ca. 1,300 m" but some sampling was in gardens at 950 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Substrate: water edge

Disturbance: selective logging

MAP: 6500.0

Habitat comments: a variety of water edge habitats within "Native primary and secondary forest" that "had been degraded by cutting" including "several creeks and ditches, as well as a fish-free pond in semi-natural forest and a sedge swamp in abandoned gardens"; "small coffee plantations" were in the area

Methods
Life forms: odonates

Sampling methods: no design,butterfly nets

Sample size: 870 individuals

Years: 2004

Days: 36

Sampling comments: "Sampling was carried out by slowly walking through all habitat types. Specimens were collected with butterfly nets and killed in jars with ethanol"

Metadata
Sample number: 1649

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-06-19 20:56:35

Modified: 2015-06-19 10:56:35

Abundance distribution
38 species
11 singletons
total count 870
geometric series index: 61.4
Fisher's α: 8.112
geometric series k: 0.8674
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9054
Shannon's H: 2.7632
Good's u: 0.9874
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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