Territory Wildlife Park (arboreal)
Basic information
Sample name: Territory Wildlife Park (arboreal)
Reference: A. N. Andersen, L. T. van Ingen, and R. I. Campos. 2007. Contrasting rainforest and savanna ant faunas in monsoonal northern Australia: a rainforest patch in a tropical savanna landscape. Australian Journal of Zoology 55:363-369 [ER 530]
Geography
Country: Australia
State: Northern Territory
Coordinate: 12° 42' S, 130° 59' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "40 km south-west of Darwin"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Protection: wildlife protected area
Substrate: branches or trunks
MAT: 27.6
MAP: 1700.0
Habitat comments: "wet monsoon rainforest"
"virtually all" rainfall is from November to April; MAT is the average of daily min/max 23.2/31.9
"virtually all" rainfall is from November to April; MAT is the average of daily min/max 23.2/31.9
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 5
Sampling methods: no design,pitfall traps
Sample size: 261 individuals
Years: 2007
Days: 4
Nets or traps: 75
Net or trap nights: 300
Sampling comments: arboreal pitfall traps were "located at eye height on the nearest tree from each ground pitfall trap (i.e. 15 arboreal traps at each of the five locations)"
Metadata
Sample number: 904
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-05-03 21:06:19
Modified: 2014-05-03 11:06:19
Abundance distribution
12 species
1 singleton
total count 261
extrapolated richness: 15.5
Fisher's α: 2.597
geometric series k: 0.6714
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7978
Shannon's H: 1.8871
Good's u: 0.9962
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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