Cienega Ranch
Basic information
Sample name: Cienega Ranch

Reference: J. H. Cane, L. J. Kervin, and R. McKinley. 2013. Sensitivity of systematic net sampling for detecting shifting patterns of incidence and abundance in a floral guild of bees at Larrea tridentata. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 86(2):171-180 [ER 1022]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Arizona


Coordinate: 32.012° N, -109.050° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "near Community Road on Cienega Ranch in the San Simon Valley"

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "a large and homogeneous 'flat’' of creosote bush"

Methods
Life forms: bees

Sites: 1

Site length: 100

Site width: 100

Sampling methods: quadrat,other nets

Sample size: 1247 individuals

Years: 1997

Days: 8

Sampling comments: sampling was conducted with "aerial nets" by three people for "five hrs every other morning, beginning at dawn, from 25 August to 5 September 1997"

Metadata
Sample number: 1516

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-04-26 17:00:17

Modified: 2015-04-26 07:00:17

Abundance distribution
20 species
2 singletons
total count 1247
extrapolated richness: 27.2
Fisher's α: 3.383
geometric series k: 0.7325
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7851
Shannon's H: 1.8078
Good's u: 0.9984
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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