Vellimalai kovil (October 2010)
Basic information
Sample name: Vellimalai kovil (October 2010)
Reference: S. Amala and V. Anuradha. 2012. Species composition and diversity of mosquitoes in selected areas of vellimalai in sirumalai hills. International Journal of Biological & Medical Research 3(1):1281-1283 [ER 2215]
Geography
Country: India
State: Tamil Nadu
Coordinate: 10° 12' 30" N, 78° 3' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range
Geography comments: in the "Sirumalai Hills, a part of Eastern Ghats... 6.5 km south of Dindigul District... between 10º 7' – 10º 18' N latitude and 77º 55' – 78º 12' E longitude... The study area is Vellimalai kovil"
altitude 400 to 1650 m
altitude 400 to 1650 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 32.0
CMT: 19.7
MAP: 836.0
Habitat comments: "The annual mean temperature of this area varies during summer and winter from 250 C to 280C and 150C to 100C respectively. The rainfall in the region is a tropical dissymmetric type with the bulk of rain received during the retreating monsoon period (October – December)... The study area... has a perennial stream and a dam. The vegetations near the stream consists of trees like Ficus carica and shrubs like Lantana camera"
climate data are for Thoppampatti in Dindigul District and are from Sivasankari et al. (2014, Journal of Ethnopharmacology)
climate data are for Thoppampatti in Dindigul District and are from Sivasankari et al. (2014, Journal of Ethnopharmacology)
Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes
Sampling methods: no design,sweep nets,hand capture
Sample size: 55 individuals
Years: 2010
Sampling comments: "The adult mosquitoes were collected from the thick bushes using sweep net. Immature forms of mosquitoes were collected by dipper method... during Oct 2010-Feb 2011"
Metadata
Sample number: 2253
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-09-04 14:36:18
Modified: 2016-12-18 05:04:54
Abundance distribution
5 species
0 singletons
total count 55
geometric series index: 5.6
Fisher's α: 1.336
geometric series k: 0.7598
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7774
Shannon's H: 1.5570
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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