Kinabulu National Park (BD epigaeic pitfall traps)
Basic information
Sample name: Kinabulu National Park (BD epigaeic pitfall traps)
Reference: S. M. Berghoff, U. Maschwitz, and K. E. Linsenmair. 2003. Influence of the hypogaeic army ant Dorylus (Dichthadia) laevigatus on tropical arthropod communities. Oecologia 135:149-157 [ER 486]
Geography
Country: Malaysia
State: Sabah
Coordinate: 6° 5' N, 116° 3' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "Kinabalu National Park and surrounding areas at Poring Hot Springs"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 28.0
CMT: 26.5
MAP: 2538.0
Habitat comments: overall study included "a meadow, young and old secondary forests, primary lowland, and lower montane rainforest" but the actual samples are from "one... primary rainforest and one... old secondary forest"
climate based on station 96471 (Kota Kinabulu)
climate based on station 96471 (Kota Kinabulu)
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 2
Sample size: 1050 individuals
Years: 2002
Days: 3
Nets or traps: 48
Net or trap nights: 144
Sampling comments: four pitfall traps left open for three days in each of six 1 m2 quadrats at each of two sites
Metadata
Sample number: 850
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-19 16:27:40
Modified: 2014-04-24 02:28:09
Abundance distribution
50 species
22 singletons
total count 1050
extrapolated richness: 128.8
Fisher's α: 10.927
geometric series k: 0.8811
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7087
Shannon's H: 1.7780
Good's u: 0.9791
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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