Poultry Pukur
Basic information
Sample name: Poultry Pukur

Sample aka: Midnapore

Reference: S. Jana, P. R. Pahari, T. K. Dutta, and T. Bhattacharya. 2009. Diversity and community structure of aquatic insects in a pond in Midnapore town, West Bengal, India. Journal of Environmental Biology 30(2):283-287 [ER 1130]
Geography
Country: India

State: West Bengal


Coordinate: 22° 27' N, 87° 20' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in Midnapore town... near Midnapore railway station"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: inhabited area

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: open water

Habitat comments: "a man-made pond... The area of the water body is 2.5 acre with maximum depth of 6 meter. The pond is infested with many aquatic weeds and is subjected to various anthropogenic interferences"
there is no nearby climate station

Methods
Life forms: beetles,odonates,other insects

Sampling methods: no design,other nets

Sample size: 438 individuals

Years: 2004, 2005

Days: 6

Sampling comments: collections were made "at a monthly interval" over six months "between 8.00 to 10.00 a.m. The collection were made by hauling of a dip net with a mesh size of 245" micrometers

Metadata
Sample number: 1651

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-06-25 14:18:38

Modified: 2020-01-14 05:30:24

Abundance distribution
20 species
3 singletons
total count 438
extrapolated richness: 28.1
Fisher's α: 4.321
geometric series k: 0.7530
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7230
Shannon's H: 1.9351
Good's u: 0.9932
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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