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

County: Cache

Coordinate: 41.61° N, -111.57° W
Latlng 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

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

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

Metadata
Sample no: 304

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

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

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

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
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
Register
Acari indet.144
Machilidae indet.11
Buprestidae indet.4
Carabidae indet.26
Cerambycidae indet.1
Chrysomelidae indet.1649
Coccinellidae indet.128
Curculionidae indet.19
Dermestidae indet.11
Elateridae indet.1
Histeridae indet.18
Melyridae indet.66
Mordellidae indet.5
Scarabeidae indet.1
Staphylinidae indet.1
Tenebrionidae indet.1
Entomobryidae indet.5
Sminthuridae indet.53
Forficulidae indet.2
Bombyliidae indet.1
Cecidomyiidae indet.14
Chironomidae indet.12
Chloropidae indet.68
Culicidae indet.2
Phoridae indet.18
Pipunculidae indet.3
Sarcophagidae indet.1
Sciaridae indet.27
Simuliidae indet.10
Tachinidae indet.9
Tephritidae indet.35
Ulidiidae indet.8
Anthocoridae indet.4
Cercopidae indet.109
Cicadellidae indet.3049
Dictyopharidae indet.24
Lygaeidae indet.42
Membracidae indet.59
Miridae indet.2967
Nabidae indet.253
Ortheziidae indet.7
Pentatomidae indet.23
Psyllidae indet.47
Reduviidae indet.11
Rhopalidae indet.3
Scutelleridae indet.5
Tingidae indet.39
Braconidae indet.28
Chalcidoidea indet.201
Chrysididae indet.2
Cynipoidea indet.18
Halictidae indet.1
Ichneumonidae indet.2
Vespidae indet.1
Lycaenidae indet.7
Noctuidae indet.299
Nymphalidae indet.2
Pterophoridae indet.1
Mantidae indet.1
Chrysopidae indet.3
Hemerobiidae indet.3
Myrmeleontidae indet.1
Raphidiidae indet.8
Coenagrionidae indet.2
Acrididae indet.57
Rhaphidiphoridae indet.2
Tettigoniidae indet.32
Liposcelidae indet.100
Psocidae indet.75
Thysanoptera indet.87