Sample name: Atewa Range Forest Reserve (moderately disturbed forest)

Reference: P. Addo-Fordjour, B. A. Osei, and E. A. Kpontsu. 2015. Butterfly community assemblages in relation to human disturbance in a tropical upland forest in Ghana, and implications for conservation. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 3(6):1-18 [ER 2263]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: forest reserve

Substrate: branches or trunks

Disturbance: selective logging

MAT: 27.0

MAP: 1578.0

Habitat comments: "only selective logging activities have taken place in the moderately disturbed forest"
climate data are for the Birim Basin, which includes the site, and are from Asomaning (1993, J Afr Earth Sci)

Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: quadrat,butterfly nets,baited,other traps

Sample size: 517 individuals

Years: 2011

Sampling comments: "The current study was conducted... from January to June 2011... the quadrat sampling method was employed... Butterflies were therefore, sampled within the 50 m × 50 m plots used for the vegetation sampling. Modified IKEA® fruit baited traps (Aduse-Poku 2006) were used to trap butterflies in the forest types. In each plot, two traps, stocked with bait were hanged on trees at the canopy and under-storey layers (DeVries et al. 1997). The understorey layer traps were suspended at about 2 m from the forest floor and the canopy traps were about 39-42 m from the forest floor. The bait was made by mixing over-ripped banana mashed with fermented palm wine... Additional sampling was done with a swoop net"

Sample number: 2354

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-29 15:53:18

Modified: 2016-12-13 00:07:02