West Canungra Creek
Basic information
Sample name: West Canungra Creek

Sample aka: Lamington National Park

Reference: K. M. Stanton, C. S. Fellows, R. L. Kitching, A. Nakamura, C. J. Burwell, and R. J. Raven. 2011. Limited surrogacy between predatory arthropods along an altitudinal gradient in subtropical rainforest. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 55(2):291-302 [ER 133]
Geography
Country: Australia

State: Queensland

Coordinate: 28° 13' 30" S, 153° 9' 30" E
Latlng basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in the text
sites were at 300, 500, 700, 900, and 1100 m

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Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "continuous rainforest" variously dominated by vine and fern

Methods
Life forms: spiders, ants, beetles

Sites: 20

Site area: 0.8

Sampling methods: quadrat, pitfall traps

Sample size: 4260 individuals

Years: 2006, 2007

Days: 9

Nets or traps: 180

Net or trap nights: 1620

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: there were "four replicated plots" at each of the five altitudinal levels, each 20 x 20 m, with "nine pitfall traps in a 5 x 5 crossed area" in each plot; traps "were left open for nine days" at various times in October 2006 and February 2007
WARNING: there are multiple species within many of the genera and families

Metadata
Sample no: 306

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-04-11 10:40:03

Modified: 2015-10-03 10:10:18

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
75 species
18 singletons
total count 4260
geometric series index: 115.3
Fisher's α: 12.93
geometric series k: 0.9048
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8141
Shannon's H: 2.5156
Good's u: 0.9958
Register
Amblyopone sp. 1
Anonychomyrma sp. 44
Camponotus sp. 1
Carebara sp. 28
Cerapachys sp. 1
Colobostruma sp. 1
Crematogaster sp. 17
Discothyrea sp. 1
Heteroponera sp. 2
Hypoponera sp. 9
Leptogenys sp. 54
Leptomyrmex sp. 6
Lordomyrma sp. 1
Mayriella sp. 11
Monomorium sp. 42
Myrmecina sp. 4
Notoncus sp. 22
Notostigma sp. 3
Pachycondyla sp. 4
Paraparatrechina sp. 1
Pheidole sp. 685
Ponera sp. 1
Prionopelta sp. 5
Pristomyrmex sp. 3
Prolasius sp. 80
Pseudonotoncus sp. 1
Rhopalothrix sp. 1
Rhytidoponera sp. 280
Solenopsis sp. 250
Sphinctomyrmex sp. 1
Strumigenys sp. 2
Tapinoma sp. 1
Carabidae indet.3
Coccinellidae indet.58
Scydmaenidae indet.1
Staphylinidae indet.28
Technomyrmex indet.1635
Amaurobiidae indet.88
Amphinectidae indet.9
Anapidae indet.97
Barychelidae indet.13
Clubionidae indet.10
Cycloctenidae indet.156
Desidae indet.14
Dipluridae indet.2
Gnaphosidae indet.28
Gradungulidae indet.9
Hahniidae indet.1
Hexathelidae indet.1
Idiopidae indet.3
Lamponidae indet.10
Linyphiidae indet.61
Liocranidae indet.1
Lycosidae indet.90
Malkaridae indet.14
Micropholcommatidae indet.3
Mimetidae indet.1
Mysmenidae indet.66
Nemesiidae indet.27
Nicodamidae indet.2
Oonopidae indet.62
Orsolobidae indet.12
Pisauridae indet.2
Salticidae indet.33
Sparassidae indet.22
Stiphidiidae indet.3
Tengellidae indet.7
Textricellidae indet.1
Theridiidae indet.28
Theridiosomatidae indet.2
Thomisidae indet.11
Trochanteriidae indet.3
Zodariidae indet.27
Zoridae indet.49
Zoropsidae indet.4