Sample name: Lake Chala

Reference: J. Kuppler, J. Fricke, C. Hemp, I. Steffan-Dewenter, and M. K. Peters. 2015. Conversion of savannah habitats to small-scale agriculture affects grasshopper communities at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Journal of Insect Conservation 19:509-518 [ER 2148]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture

MAT: 24.1

MAP: 600.0

Habitat comments: there is "a long rainy season from March to May and a short rainy season in November and December"

Life forms: orthopterans

Sites: 9

Site area: 0.225

Sampling methods: line transect,sweep nets,visual

Sample size: 1398 individuals

Years: 2010

Days: 144

Sampling comments: "In total, nine plots (three per land use type) were selected to ensure that the heterogeneity of each land use type (natural savannah, ruderal area and corn fields) was well represented. Each plot had an area of 250 m2... Grasshoppers were sampled in six surveys using standardized transect walk methodology between 04th September and 04th December 2010. Each survey was 2–4 days long and each plot was sampled once within each survey" (approximate effort 9 plots x 6 surveys x 3 days); "Each plot was covered by twelve parallel transects, each being 50 m long and 4 m wide. The transects were paced slowly for 1 hour and adult grasshoppers spotted sitting on herbage and on the ground were collected with sweep nets or by hand and killed with cyanide. Large species with good flying abilities were mostly counted by sight"

Sample number: 2140

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-07-24 19:45:27

Modified: 2016-07-24 09:45:27