Kitadan Valley
Basic information
Sample name: Kitadan Valley

Reference: W. M. El Sayed and K. Nakamura. 2010. Abundance, diversity and distribution of the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in a satoyama valley in Kanazawa, Japan, with special reference to the body size and feeding categories. Far Eastern Entomologist 205:1-19 [ER 1037]
Geography
Country: Japan


Coordinate: 36° 32' N, 136° 42' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "within Kanazawa University's Kakuma Campus, Kanazawa"
elevation 60 to 150 m

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 14.8

WMT: 26.8

CMT: 3.5

MAP: 2545.0

Habitat comments: the original vegetation was "deciduous broad leaved trees predominated by two oak species, Quercus serrata and Q. variabilis, patches of plantations of Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica, and moso bamboo, Phyllosta- chys sp." and sites were located "on the banks of the terraced paddies (coded as PF), at the edges of oak forests (two sites, Fe A and Fe B) in wetland among artificial ponds (W) and in open grassland (OG), in an area of abandoned crop land where millet was cultivated in 2004 and 2005"

Methods
Life forms: ground beetles

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1961 individuals

Years: 2007, 2008

Nets or traps: 75

Sampling comments: "At each sampling site, 15 unbaited pitfall traps were installed as trapping tools and spaced about 1 m apart along a transect" and sampled "early May till late November"

Metadata
Sample number: 1538

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-05-14 20:36:12

Modified: 2015-05-14 10:36:12

Abundance distribution
55 species
3 singletons
total count 1961
geometric series index: 74.1
Fisher's α: 10.507
geometric series k: 0.9065
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9404
Shannon's H: 3.0602
Good's u: 0.9985
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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