Picton Valley
Basic information
Sample name: Picton Valley

Reference: K. F. Michaels and P. B. McQuillan. 1995. Impact of commercial forest management on geophilous carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in tall, wet Eucalyptus obliqua forest in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Ecology 20:316-323 [ER 1049]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Tasmania


Coordinate: 43° 24' S, 147° 5' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "100 km south of Hobart and directly west ofthe Hartz Mountains" (coordinate based on Huon River, which is close to eight of the sites)
elevation 100 to 300 m

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1100.0

Habitat comments: "tall mixed forest largely dominated by Eucalyptus obliqua"
10 stands were felled (and soon after burnt) no earlier than 1968 and the other four were old growth

Methods
Life forms: ground beetles

Sites: 14

Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps,hand capture

Sample size: 2022 individuals

Years: 1993, 1994

Nets or traps: 252

Sampling comments: "At each site a 50 m long trapline was established, consisting of six clusters of three pitfall traps, each cluster being 10m apart... traps were emptied at 6 week intervals between July 1993 and April 1994... A supplementary hand collection was made adjacent to the transects in November 1993"

Metadata
Sample number: 1555

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-05-17 16:09:49

Modified: 2015-05-17 06:09:49

Abundance distribution
18 species
0 singletons
total count 2022
geometric series index: 21.0
Fisher's α: 2.722
geometric series k: 0.7112
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7888
Shannon's H: 1.8813
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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