Wanang Conservation Area (plot A)
Basic information
Sample name: Wanang Conservation Area (plot A)

Reference: P. Vlasanek, L. Sam, and V. Novotny. 2013. Dispersal of butterflies in a New Guinea rainforest: using mark-recapture methods in a large, homogeneous habitat. Ecological Entomology 38(6):560-569 [ER 2916]
Geography
Country: Papua New Guinea

State: Madang


Coordinate: -5.23° S, 145.08° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "primary tropical rainforest"

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: quadrat,butterfly nets

Sample size: 2296 captures or sightings

Years: 2009

Days: 39

Sampling comments: one plot somewhere between 3.15 and 3.99 ha in size
"Two teams of three people (rarely four or two people) each worked in the field daily from 09.00 to 16.00 hours... except when it was raining, from 25 April to 26 June 2009. Each team surveyed... two plots every day" out of the four plots in the study, and there were "232 person-days" over the two pairs of two plots, so there were 116 person-days and about 39 days for this plot
collectors "tried to record and capture all the butterflies found there. They were marked... then released" and it is not clear what kind of nets were used, but I assume butterfly nets

Metadata
Sample number: 3124

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-12-23 13:36:12

Modified: 2018-12-23 02:36:26

Abundance distribution
61 species
18 singletons
total count 2296
geometric series index: 104.4
Fisher's α: 11.507
geometric series k: 0.8857
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5872
Shannon's H: 1.8098
Good's u: 0.9922
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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