Brooklyn (rain-forest regrowth)
Basic information
Sample name: Brooklyn (rain-forest regrowth)
Reference: L. T. van Ingen, R. I. Campos, and A. N. Andersen. 2008. Ant community structure along an extended rain forest-savanna gradient in tropical Australia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24(4):445-455 [ER 532]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Queensland
Coordinate: 16° 59' S, 145° 25' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "100 km north-west of Cairns"
two sites are at elevations 1010 and 1016 m (midpoint is used)
two sites are at elevations 1010 and 1016 m (midpoint is used)
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 27.8
CMT: 21.5
MAP: 1886.0
Habitat comments: "vine forest regrowth" that was originally "Complex notophyll vine forest of cloudy wet uplands", with rainfall nearly 4000; climate data based on station 94287 (Cairns International Airport) for lack of any better concrete information
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 2
Sampling methods: quadrat,pitfall traps
Sample size: 402 individuals
Years: 2007
Days: 2
Nets or traps: 60
Net or trap nights: 120
Sampling comments: two sites each with "15 ground traps... in a 5 × 3 grid with 5-m spacing… An arboreal trap was taped to the tree nearest to each ground trap at 1.7 m height… Each trap was opened for a single 48-h period"
Metadata
Sample number: 2107
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-06-17 14:10:46
Modified: 2016-06-17 04:10:46
Abundance distribution
17 species
5 singletons
total count 402
extrapolated richness: 28.1
Fisher's α: 3.598
geometric series k: 0.7343
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7816
Shannon's H: 1.8518
Good's u: 0.9876
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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