Sample name: El Cimatario National Park

Reference: M. Rocha-Ortega and G. Castaño-Meneses. 2015. Effects of urbanization on the diversity of ant assemblages in tropical dry forests, Mexico. Urban Ecosystems 18:1373-1388 [ER 2260]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: invasive animals,invasive plants

Habitat comments: 2447 ha "Recreational and management forest fragment"; perturbation is "Intermediate, the park is heavily used by a variety of educational groups, likewise count with reforested areas with non-native plants and animals introduced, since 1980’s decade"

Life forms: ants

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps,other traps,hand capture

Sample size: 85 individuals

Years: 2004, 2005

Sampling comments: "samples were collected two times a month, from December 2004 to December 2005, along a linear transect of 100 m. For each collection we used traps baited with protein (tuna) or carbohydrates (peanut butter) and pitfall traps, in addition to leaf litter samples and manual collections. In total, 24 samples per site were collected in a year... We used 16 baited traps in 4 vertical strata for each site: 4 in soil (2 traps baited with tuna and two baited with peanut butter), 8 in the scrub layer (4 baited with tuna and 4 with peanut butter) and 4 in the canopy layer (2 baited with tuna and two with peanut butter). The baited traps were installed in the morning and left for 24 h. A total of 1 536 baited traps were used in the study (16 traps×4 sites×24 survey samples). The pitfall traps consisted of plastic 250 ml cups filled with antifreeze placed at ground level for 15 days. Four pitfall traps were used for each site, for a total of 384 traps (4 traps×4 sites×24 survey samples). In addition, every 15 days we collected 4 leaf litter samples (1 m2) per site, which were subsequently placed in Berlese funnels (Martin 1977), resulting in a total of 480 litter samples. Finally, we performed manual collections of 20 min durations every 15 days, for a total of 32 h of observation"

Sample number: 2335

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-26 19:23:25

Modified: 2016-10-26 08:23:25