Provost
Basic information
Sample name: Provost

Reference: J. M. Hardman and S. Smoliak. 1982. The relative impact of various grasshopper species on Stipa-Agropyron mixed prairie and fescue prairie in southern Alberta. Journal of Range Management 35(2):171-176 [ER 2165]
Geography
Country: Canada

State: Alberta



Coordinate: 52° 21' N, 110° 16' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "290 km northeast of Calgary" (coordinate based on Provost)

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "Stipa-Agropyron prairie"

Methods
Life forms: orthopterans

Sampling methods: no design,sweep nets

Sample size: 934 individuals

Years: 1971, 1972

Seasons: summer

Sampling comments: "Grasshoppers were sampled annually in late August... The samples were obtained by making 50-1,000 semi-circular sweeps with a 34-cm diam. net at the rate of one sweep per step"
text states there are 934 individuals, fully consistent with there having been 400 sweeps in total over two field seasons

Metadata
Sample number: 2171

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-08-04 09:49:58

Modified: 2016-08-03 23:56:39

Abundance distribution
11 species
1 singleton
total count 934
geometric series index: 13.9
Fisher's α: 1.751
geometric series k: 0.5317
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5735
Shannon's H: 1.1786
Good's u: 0.9989
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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