Rivière Bleue (1999)
Basic information
Sample name: Rivière Bleue (1999)
Reference: J. Le Breton, J. Chazeau, and H. Jourdan. 2003. Immediate impacts of invasion by Wasmannia auropunctata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on native litter ant fauna in a New Caledonian rainforest. Austral Ecology 28:204-209 [ER 483]
Geography
Country: New Caledonia
Coordinate: 22° 9' S, 166° 48' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate based on Lac de Yaté
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: invasive animals
WMT: 26.1
CMT: 19.9
MAP: 1042.0
Habitat comments: "pristine and undisturbed rainforest"
assemblage is heavily dominated by the invasive Wasmannia auropunctata
climate based on station 91592 (Noumea)
assemblage is heavily dominated by the invasive Wasmannia auropunctata
climate based on station 91592 (Noumea)
Methods
Life forms: ants
Site length: 139
Site width: 25
Sampling methods: quadrat,pitfall traps
Sample size: 543 individuals
Years: 1999
Days: 7
Nets or traps: 168
Net or trap nights: 1176
Sampling comments: "168 pitfall traps arranged in six parallel lines of 28 traps each, with 5 m between the traps and 5 m between the transects" (i.e., 139 x 25 m), with traps "left open for 7 days"
Metadata
Sample number: 846
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-19 13:18:13
Modified: 2015-10-03 23:07:02
Abundance distribution
21 species
4 singletons
total count 543
extrapolated richness: 32.1
Fisher's α: 4.342
geometric series k: 0.7409
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4405
Shannon's H: 1.2207
Good's u: 0.9926
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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