Danum Valley Conservation Area (ground)
Basic information
Sample name: Danum Valley Conservation Area (ground)

Reference: H. L. Brant, R. M. Ewers, I. Vythilingam, C. Drakeley, S. Benedick, and J. D. Mumford. 2016. Vertical stratification of adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) within a tropical rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaria Journal 15(370):1-9 [ER 2320]
Geography
Country: Malaysia

State: Sabah



Coordinate: 4° 58' N, 117° 42' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the Tawau Division... in the vicinity of Danum Valley Field Centre"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.2

CMT: 26.1

MAP: 1958.0

Habitat comments: "primary lowland dipterocarp rainforest"
climate based on station 96481 (Tawau)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: no design,hand capture

Sample size: 24 individuals

Years: 2014

Days: 4

Sampling comments: "Three survey points, with a minimum separation distance of 500 m, were selected... One tree was selected at each point... All data collection was carried out from April to July 2014, and mosquitoes were collected using human landing catches at ground and canopy height between 18:00 and 22:00 h. Four consecutive nights of collections were carried out... The collectors, with the aid of a red torch-light, aspirated mosquitoes off their own legs"

Metadata
Sample number: 2467

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-01-02 08:47:27

Modified: 2017-01-01 21:47:27

Abundance distribution
4 species
3 singletons
total count 24
geometric series index: 16.8
Fisher's α: 1.371
geometric series k: 0.3625
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1957
Shannon's H: 0.5141
Good's u: 0.8750
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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