Hardware Ranch WMA
Basic information
Sample name: Hardware Ranch WMA

Sample aka: Wasatch-Cache National Forest

Reference: L. R. Spears and J. A. Macmahon. 2012. An experimental study of spiders in a shrub-steppe ecosystem: the effects of prey availability and shrub architecture. Journal of Arachnology 40(2):218-227 [ER 131]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Utah


Coordinate: 41.61° N, -111.57° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: about 40 km southeast of Logan

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Protection: national/state forest

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: shrub-steppe ecosystem thta is "used primarily as winter range for big game"

Methods
Life forms: spiders

Sampling methods: no design,sticky traps

Sample size: 9929 individuals

Years: 2007-2008

Sampling comments: A sheet of clear plexiglass (25 3 25 cm) was coated on both sides with Tanglefoot trap coating (p. 219)

Metadata
Sample number: 304

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-04-11 09:49:06

Modified: 2015-02-23 03:04:11

Abundance distribution
70 species
12 singletons
total count 9929
geometric series index: 97.6
Fisher's α: 10.167
geometric series k: 0.8902
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7858
Shannon's H: 2.1042
Good's u: 0.9988
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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