Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (ground)
Basic information
Sample name: Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (ground)
Reference: J. T. Longino and N. M. Nadkarni. 1990. A comparison of ground and canopy leaf litter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a neotropical montane forest. Psyche 97:81-93 [ER 502]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
Coordinate: 10° 18' N, 84° 48' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: forest reserve
Substrate: leaf litter
MAT: 18.5
MAP: 2450.0
Habitat comments: MAP stated in text; MAT based on Anchukaitis et al. (2008, JGR)
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sampling methods: Winkler apparatus
Sample size: 2931 individuals
Years: 1984, 1987
Nets or traps: 24
Sampling comments: collection employed "Winkler litter-sifting and arthropod extraction devices"; there were "twelve paired samples" with one sample "taken from the inner crown regions of a canopy tree and the other from the ground immediately below"
Metadata
Sample number: 869
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-22 15:04:26
Modified: 2014-05-04 05:59:02
Abundance distribution
48 species
6 singletons
total count 2931
geometric series index: 65.7
Fisher's α: 8.153
geometric series k: 0.8711
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8827
Shannon's H: 2.5965
Good's u: 0.9980
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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