Khao Chong Botanic Garden (under Parashorea stellata tree crowns, wet season)
Basic information
Sample name: Khao Chong Botanic Garden (under Parashorea stellata tree crowns, wet season)

Reference: W. Sakchoowong, S. Hasin, N. Pachey, W. Amornsak, S. Bunyavejchewin, P. Kongnoo, and Y. Basset. 2015. Influence of leaf litter composition on ant assemblages in a lowland tropical rainforest in Thailand. Asian Myrmecology 7:57-71 [ER 2258]
Geography
Country: Thailand

State: Trang


Coordinate: 7° 32' N, 99° 47' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "at the Khao Chong CTFS forest dynamics plot in the Khao Chong Botanic Garden" (which is 24 ha)
elevation 108 to 280 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: leaf litter

MAT: 28.2

MAP: 2800.0

Habitat comments: "lowland seasonal evergreen forest"

Methods
Life forms: ants

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: quadrat,Winkler apparatus

Sample size: 773 individuals

Years: 2010

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 20

Sampling comments: "Ant assemblages were sampled in March and October 2010... Ants were extracted from leaf litter using the ALL (Ants of the Leaf Litter) protocol, which involves sifting and concentrating the finest leaf litter and arthropods before separating the ants with Winkler extractors... we selected five trees per species... We sampled all leaf litter in four 0.5 m2 quadrats under each focal tree (N = 5 per species; totalling 60 Winkler samples for the three focal tree species)"

Metadata
Sample number: 2328

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-23 18:54:46

Modified: 2016-10-23 07:54:46

Abundance distribution
36 species
8 singletons
total count 773
geometric series index: 56.8
Fisher's α: 7.820
geometric series k: 0.8556
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8670
Shannon's H: 2.5599
Good's u: 0.9897
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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