Pune Alive : Ant Diversity 2000

Tejaswini Pachpor; Yogita Ghodake

doi:10.15468/jd3c6x

Pune Alive : Ant Diversity 2000

Citation

Pachpor T, Ghodake Y, Jadhav Kulkarni N, Barve V (2023). Pune Alive : Ant Diversity 2000. Version 1.7. Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/jd3c6x accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

Changes in the urban biodiversity can sometimes serve as vital signs of environmental change. Urban naturalists need not take pleasure in visiting just remote forests and wetlands, but monitor urban wildlife around them and strive to conserve it. 'Pune Alive - a directory of Pune biodiversity' is Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)'s latest initiative to monitor urban wildlife by recording the existing wealth and strive to conserve it. Ants deserve a special place in the study of ecology, including behaviour; given their species richness, social habits and high densities contributing much of the animal biomass on the earth. We tried to explore their distribution across a variety of habitat types around Pune city. This data set is from the 'Pune Alive - a directory of Pune biodiversity' in which documented occurrence records of 13 genera belonging to 4 sub-families of ants from Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Ant samples were collected from 10 kms within the center of Pune city, India during summer and early monsoon of the year 2000.

Sampling

Specimens were sampled and preserved at Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, India.

Method steps

Sampling included 2 hour morning search for ants during summer and early monsoon periods in the forests, scrub, grasslands and agriculture and human habitations. Few individuals from each trail or congregation of apparent recognizable taxonomic units (RTU) were collected and preserved at the Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, India, with notes of their locality, habitat and relative visual abundance.

Taxonomic Coverages

Formicidae
common name: Ants rank: family

Geographic Coverages

This data set includes occurrence records compiled within 10 kms of the center of Pune city, India.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Tejaswini Pachpor
originator
position: Researcher
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5449-5526

Yogita Ghodake
originator
position: Researcher
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6232-0550

Nalini Jadhav Kulkarni
metadata author
position: Project intern
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
email: nalini.jadhav3444@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-2211

Vijay Barve
metadata author
position: Research associate
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567

Nalini Jadhav Kulkarni
administrative point of contact
position: Project intern
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
email: nalini.jadhav3444@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-2211

Vijay Barve
administrative point of contact
position: Research Associate
Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA)
email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567