Port Broughton
Basic information
Sample name: Port Broughton

Reference: S. R. Williams, M. J. Kokkinn, S. R. Fricker, M. J. Schneemilch, M. J. Humphrey, and C. R. Williams. 2009. Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Of the Spencer Gulf Coast of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 133(1):51-56 [ER 2198]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: South Australia



Coordinate: 33° 35' S, 137° 56' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: none given (coordinate based on Port Broughton)

Environment
Habitat: temperate wetland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.9

CMT: 7.3

MAP: 230.0

Habitat comments: "The Spencer Gulf shoreline is characterised variously by cliffs and sand beaches, tidal flats and vast areas of mangrove forest... Coastal dunes and mallee scrub are typical of the environment immediately inland"
climate data are for Middleback Field Centre and are from Facelli and Brock (2000, Ecography)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,baited,light traps

Sample size: 6967 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 2

Seasons: spring

Nets or traps: 6

Net or trap nights: 12

Sampling comments: "Adult collections were made using carbon-dioxide baited encephalitis virus surveillance (EVS) miniature light traps (Rohe & Fall 1979), containing approx. 1kg of dry ice... deployed in vegetation 1–2 m above ground level... collections were made on two dates in Nov 2005, with six EVS traps deployed at various sites in the residential area and marshy areas to the west, resulting in 12 trap collections"

Metadata
Sample number: 2232

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-08-16 15:32:27

Modified: 2016-12-17 23:03:36

Abundance distribution
6 species
0 singletons
total count 6967
geometric series index: 6.7
Fisher's α: 0.646
geometric series k: 0.2111
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4491
Shannon's H: 0.7481
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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