Benta Wawasan (virgin jungle reserve, canopy)
Basic information
Sample name: Benta Wawasan (virgin jungle reserve, canopy)

Reference: H. L. Brant, R. M. Ewers, I. Vythilingam, C. Drakeley, S. Benedick, and J. D. Mumford. 2016. Vertical stratification of adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) within a tropical rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaria Journal 15(370):1-9 [ER 2320]
Geography
Country: Malaysia

State: Sabah


Coordinate: 4° 40' N, 117° 32' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "within the Benta Wawasan oil palm plantation" close to the Danum Valley Field Centre

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: canopy

WMT: 27.2

CMT: 26.1

MAP: 1958.0

Habitat comments: "primary lowland dipterocarp rainforest... logged around the edge, but never logged in the steep interior"
climate based on station 96481 (Tawau)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: no design,hand capture

Sample size: 53 individuals

Years: 2014

Days: 4

Sampling comments: "Three survey points, with a minimum separation distance of 500 m, were selected... One tree was selected at each point... All data collection was carried out from April to July 2014, and mosquitoes were collected using human landing catches at ground and canopy height between 18:00 and 22:00 h. Four consecutive nights of collections were carried out... The collectors, with the aid of a red torch-light, aspirated mosquitoes off their own legs"

Metadata
Sample number: 2470

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-01-02 09:03:24

Modified: 2017-01-01 22:03:24

Abundance distribution
7 species
1 singleton
total count 53
geometric series index: 10.6
Fisher's α: 2.161
geometric series k: 0.5930
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7065
Shannon's H: 1.4984
Good's u: 0.9818
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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