Ankasa Conservation Area (plantation)
Basic information
Sample name: Ankasa Conservation Area (plantation)

Reference: A. L. V. Davis and T. K. Philips. 2005. Effect of deforestation on a southwest Ghana dung beetle assemblage (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) at the periphery of Ankasa Conservation Area. Environmental Entomology 34(5):1081-1088 [ER 342]
Geography
Country: Ghana


Coordinate: 5° 17' N, 2° 35' W
Geography comments: coordinate extrapolated from that of the "Elubo gate" given in text; this is about 20 km due west of the center of the reserve
elevation 6.8 to 109.5 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: plantation

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.9

CMT: 24.6

MAP: 1446.0

Habitat comments: originally "Eastern Upper Guinean rainforest" and now oil palm plantations
climate data based on station 65585 (Adiake)

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 4

Sampling methods: no design,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 8098 individuals

Days: 2

Nets or traps: 12

Net or trap nights: 24

Sampling comments: three pig dung-baited pitfall traps "placed at least 10 m apart" per site; "traps were baited in the morning on two 24-h trapping occasions"

Metadata
Sample number: 1274

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-18 11:40:29

Modified: 2015-10-02 21:52:28

Abundance distribution
20 species
2 singletons
total count 8098
extrapolated richness: 27.6
Fisher's α: 2.471
geometric series k: 0.6322
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4136
Shannon's H: 0.9131
Good's u: 0.9998
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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