Lamto reserve (cocoa plantations)
Basic information
Sample name: Lamto reserve (cocoa plantations)
Reference: M. Kone, S. Konate, K. Yeo, P. K. Kouassi, and K. E. Linsenmair. 2010. Diversity and abundance of terrestrial ants along a gradient of land use intensification in a transitional forest-savannah zone of Côte d'Ivoire. Journal of Applied Biosciences 29:1809-1827 [ER 504]
Geography
Country: Ivory Coast
Coordinate: 6° 13' N, 5° 2' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: plantation
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: hunting,selective logging
MAT: 28.6
MAP: 1053.0
Habitat comments: general environment is "forest-savannah transitional zone... The cocoa plantations investigated were about 20 years old. The floor cover was mainly composed of dead cocoa tree leaves"
Methods
Life forms: ants
Sites: 3
Sampling methods: line transect,sieves,Winkler apparatus,pitfall traps,hand capture
Sample size: 366 individuals
Years: 2005
Seasons: wet or monsoon
Nets or traps: 30
Sampling comments: 3 sites each with a 200 m transect including 15 soil samples spaced 12 m apart, with a combination of pitfall traps, extraction using a mini-Winkler apparatus, hand sampling of sieved soil samples, and general hand sampling
"The study was carried out... during the long rainy season (April to October 2005)"
"The study was carried out... during the long rainy season (April to October 2005)"
Metadata
Sample number: 2347
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-10-27 11:47:52
Modified: 2016-10-27 00:47:52
Abundance distribution
45 species
13 singletons
total count 366
extrapolated richness: 82.3
Fisher's α: 13.484
geometric series k: 0.9141
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9338
Shannon's H: 3.1076
Good's u: 0.9646
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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