Southern Poland
Basic information
Sample name: Southern Poland

Reference: P. Skórka, M. Lenda, D. Morón, K. Kalarus, and P. Tryjanowski. 2013. Factors affecting road mortality and the suitability of road verges for butterflies. Biological Conservation 159:148-157 [ER 820]
Geography
Country: Poland


Coordinate: 50° 20' N, 21° 0' E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Geography comments: "in the environs of the cities of Kraków, Tarnów and Rzeszów" (coordinate is the approximate median of points shown on a map)

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 8.2

WMT: 18.5

CMT: -3.0

MAP: 645.0

Habitat comments: crops cover 54% of the study area, grasslands 10%, fallow 10%, forests 14%, and settlements 10%

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sites: 60

Sampling methods: line transect,visual

Sample size: 7713 individuals

Years: 2010

Seasons: spring,summer

Sampling comments: 60 200 m transects, each consisting of "two parallel lines, one on either side of the road" and each surveyed 12 times for about 20 minutes

Metadata
Sample number: 1169

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-09-23 20:02:41

Modified: 2014-09-23 10:02:41

Abundance distribution
42 species
0 singletons
total count 7713
geometric series index: 43.4
Fisher's α: 5.845
geometric series k: 0.8652
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9402
Shannon's H: 3.1848
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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