Carmo Park (CDC canopy)
Basic information
Sample name: Carmo Park (CDC canopy)

Reference: M. B. de Paula, A. Fernandes, A. R. Medeiros-Sousa, W. Ceretti-Jùnior, R. Christe, R. C. Stroebel, L. Pedrosa, R. M. M. S. Almeida, G. C. de Carvalho, U. D. Pereira, M. C. O. Jacintho, D. Natal, and M. T. Marrelli. 2015. Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) fauna in parks in greater Saõ Paulo, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 15(e20140026):1-9 [ER 2325]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Säo Paulo


Coordinate: 23° 33' 59" S, 46° 28' 4" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "Carmo Park (Olavo Egydio Setùbal Park)... is considered the second largest municipal park in the city... The flora consists mainly of remnants of the Atlantic Forest with riparian forest, anthropic vegetation, marshes, lawns, eucalyptus groves, an orchard, a coffee grove, an Okinawa cherry tree wood and a nursery for different species of bushes" and has an area of 238.9 ha

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: canopy

MAT: 15.7

CMT: 22.9

MAP: 1661.0

Habitat comments: specific sites are "1- a wooded area close to the administration buildings; 2- a wooded area between the parking lot and the nursery; 3- an area with a large number of ducks beside a lake; and 4- a lake close to the cherry tree wood"
climate based on station 83781 (Säo Paulo)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sites: 4

Sampling methods: no design,baited,light traps

Sample size: 211 individuals

Years: 2011, 2012

Sampling comments: "Field visits were made monthly between March 2011 and February 2012, totalizing twelve samplings in each park. Specimens were collected using... CDC light traps with 200 g of dry ice placed 1 m above the ground (two traps) and in the canopy 5 m above the ground (two traps) for three hours"

Metadata
Sample number: 2479

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-01-02 13:51:10

Modified: 2020-01-14 10:10:22

Abundance distribution
9 species
1 singleton
total count 211
geometric series index: 12.6
Fisher's α: 1.909
geometric series k: 0.5596
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6271
Shannon's H: 1.2749
Good's u: 0.9953
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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