Sample name: Van Ban Nature Reserve (below 700 m, natural forest)

Reference: V. L. Vu. 2011. Diversity of butterflies in a tropical rain forest of Van Ban Nature Reserve, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Russian Entomological Journal 20(4):411-418 [ER 2247]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: nature reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 19.0

MAP: 2100.0

Habitat comments: "tropical rain forest": "forest canopy" reaches "the heights of up to 30 m and 25 m, respectively. The vegetation cover is over 70%, consisting of natural forests with some small natural gaps, characterized by the presence of trees of various families in the climax forests"
climate data are for the Van Ban Nature Reserve and are from Lam and Mai (2013, in Sunderland et al.)

Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: line transect,butterfly nets,visual

Sample size: 165 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 25

Sampling comments: collecting was "from March 15 to April 14, 2005" and this is a "500-m" transect; "The transect count method was used to record butterflies. A number of butterflies were collected on different sites beyond the transects using butterfly hand nets for identification... Each transect was repeated in 25 counts"

Sample number: 2303

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-20 20:46:31

Modified: 2016-12-13 00:11:23