Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest (Meadow 2)
Basic information
Sample name: Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest (Meadow 2)
Reference: K. A. VanDyke, A. V. Latchininsky, and S. P. Schell. 2009. Importance of ecological scale in montane grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) species structure in similar habitat between differing soil textures and dominant vegetative canopy coverage. Journal of Orthoptera Research 18(2):215-223 [ER 2163]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
Coordinate: 41° 3' 15" N, 106° 4' 56" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: temperate coniferous forest
Protection: national/state forest
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "bordered by mixed limber and lodgepole pine stands, with some aspen and ponderosa pine"
Methods
Life forms: orthopterans
Sampling methods: no design,sweep nets,hand capture
Sample size: 31 individuals
Years: 2006
Sampling comments: sampling was "On August 10, 2006 and August 30, 2006... density per m2 was assessed... by 40 counts of grasshoppers in a visualized 0.1 m2 area... Grasshoppers were collected using 38-cm diameter sweep nets with 100 low and slow sweeps... and 100 high and fast sweeps... followed by 30 min of hand sampling"
Metadata
Sample number: 2166
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-08-03 13:51:44
Modified: 2016-08-03 03:51:44
Abundance distribution
6 species
2 singletons
total count 31
geometric series index: 11.6
Fisher's α: 2.216
geometric series k: 0.5674
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6290
Shannon's H: 1.3209
Good's u: 0.9355
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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