Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve (12 year gap)
Basic information
Sample name: Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve (12 year gap)
Reference: M. Patrick, D. Fowler, R. R. Dunn, and N. J. Sanders. 2012. Effects of treefall gap disturbances on ant assemblages in a tropical montane cloud forest. Biotropica 44(4):472-478 [ER 2124]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
Coordinate: 10° 12' N, 84° 42' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "on the crest of the Cordillera de Tilarân... on the SE side of the summit of Cerro de la Centinelas"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: leaf litter
MAP: 2450.0
Habitat comments: treefall gap
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sampling methods: quadrat,Winkler apparatus
Sample size: 100 individuals
Years: 2007
Seasons: wet or monsoon
Sampling comments: "We sampled... during the wet season, from 1 June 2007 to 31 July 2007... In the center of each... plot, we established a 4 x 4 grid of 16 locations 2 m apart... We sampled leaf litter ants using mini-Winkler extractors... we collected leaf litter from four randomly placed 1-m2 quadrats within the central 4 x 4 grid described above"
Metadata
Sample number: 2105
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-06-17 11:25:48
Modified: 2016-06-18 03:06:55
Abundance distribution
8 species
2 singletons
total count 100
geometric series index: 13.4
Fisher's α: 2.046
geometric series k: 0.5572
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5903
Shannon's H: 1.2692
Good's u: 0.9802
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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