Vellore District
Basic information
Sample name: Vellore District
Reference: . Senthamarai Selvan. 2016. Studies on the mosquito diversity with special reference to dengue vectors in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences 1(1):32-39 [ER 2213]
Geography
Country: India
State: Tamil Nadu
Coordinate: 12° 45' N, 79° 5' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range
Geography comments: "in Vellore district, in a total of 10 different pockets (either villages or areas in town or panchayath) under five randomly selected taluks viz., Arakkonam, Katpadi, Gudiyatham, Vellore and Thirupattur... between 12º 15' to 13º 15' North latitude and 78º 20' to 79º 50' East longitude"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: inhabited area
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 36.8
CMT: 18.2
MAP: 950.0
Habitat comments: "containers, stagnant pools, discarded tyres, cess pits, domestic runoffs and tree holes etc."
climate data are for the Tirupattur region of Vellore District and are from Sajil Kumar et al. (2015, Journal of Geochemical Exploration)
climate data are for the Tirupattur region of Vellore District and are from Sajil Kumar et al. (2015, Journal of Geochemical Exploration)
Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes
Sites: 10
Sampling methods: sweep nets,hand capture
Sample size: 696 individuals
Years: 2015
Sampling comments: "adult mosquitoes were collected with the help of suction tube and sweep net. Mosquito collections were carried out... in frequently twice per month between July, 2015 - December, 2015"
Metadata
Sample number: 2251
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-09-04 10:12:01
Modified: 2020-01-14 05:33:58
Abundance distribution
10 species
0 singletons
total count 696
geometric series index: 10.3
Fisher's α: 1.654
geometric series k: 0.7489
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8252
Shannon's H: 1.9758
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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