Garoua (1995)
Basic information
Sample name: Garoua (1995)

Reference: N. Woin, J. A. Takow, and P. Kosga. 2005. Predatory ground-dwelling beetles (Carabidae and Staphylinidae) in upland rice fields in North Cameroon. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 25(3):190-197 [ER 1179]
Geography
Country: Cameroon



Coordinate: 9° 17' N, 13° 22' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the Benue valley"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1000.0

Habitat comments: "a grassy savanna" that "is characterized by a Sudano-Sahelian climate" and specifically "a 2.3ha plot in 8 ha of neighbouring rice fields surrounded by other cereals, mainly maize and sorghum"
the "temperature range" is 13 to 42ยบ C (apparently meaning record lows and highs)
MAP is a minimum estimate

Methods
Life forms: ground beetles,rove beetles

Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1024 individuals

Years: 1995

Nets or traps: 16

Sampling comments: "Eight pitfall traps were placed at a 12-m distance from each other, along each of the two field transects selected at 15 and 100 m from the bottom of the plot... The traps were emptied weekly" (number of sampling days is unclear, although it is possible that monitoring was continual for a year)
exactly the same data were published by Woin et al. (2006, Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection)

Metadata
Sample number: 1711

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-16 20:21:03

Modified: 2018-06-03 06:10:04

Abundance distribution
66 species
12 singletons
total count 1024
geometric series index: 115.0
Fisher's α: 15.753
geometric series k: 0.9190
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8828
Shannon's H: 2.7613
Good's u: 0.9883
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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