Occurrence dataset Registered March 07, 2024
Occurence of spiders (Araneae) and ants (Formicidae) collected from northern Ghanaian mango orchards and forest savannah
Description
The dataset contains occurrence data of 36 species and 29 morphospecies of spiders (Araneae) and 41 species and 22 morphospecies of ants (Formicidae) collected from ten sampling points in northern Ghana during Oct-Nov 2022. The total sample size is 288 samples of spiders with 438 mature individuals and 782 samples of ants with 7859 individuals. The dataset contains collection information (locality, habitat, collecting method, time, coordinates, collectors, etc.) and sample information (collection code, count, sex, remarks, etc.). This work was part of the project SustInAfrica and funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement 861924.
Geographic scope
- Description
Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Northern region
- Latitude
- From 9.305 to 9.693
- Longitude
- From -1.079 to -0.534
Temporal scope
- range
- October 06, 2022 - November 14, 2022
Methodology
- Sampling
Plot sizes and trap numbers varied so that in the Forest Reserve four 50x50m plots were sampled with 48 pitfall traps and one Malaise trap in each, while in the Kumbungu mango orchard five approximately 30x30m plots were sampled with 32 pitfall traps and four Malaise traps in each, and in the Dallung mango orchard a small 10x10m subplot was trapped with eight pitfall traps and one Malaise trap.
- Study extent
Pitfall and Malaise trapping was preformed in October-November 2022 in Sinsablegbinni Forest Reserve and mango orchards in villages of Kumbungu and Dallung, northern Ghana.
- Method steps
After the trapping, the material was stored in 96% ethanol and shipped to Helsinki, Finland, where the focal taxa were sorted and identified to species or morphospecies level. A maximum of ten individuals of each (morpho)species were collected, labelled, measured and stored in the collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Luomus), while the rest of the material was sent back to the country of origin for further inspection. The abbreviations used for morphological measurements in dynamicProperties are from https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Morphological_Measurements.
Metrics
Additional info
Contacts
- Organization
- Finnish Museum of Natural History
- Position
- Staff
- Roles
- Originator
Administrative point of contact
Pedro Cardoso
Administrative point of contact- Organization
- Finnish Museum of Natural History
- Position
- Staff
- Roles
- Administrative point of contact
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- March 07, 2024
- Metadata last modified
- March 17, 2025
- Publication date
- March 17, 2025
- Hosted by
- Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
- Installation
- FinBIF IPT
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/h9vtau
- Alternative identifiers