Paracou (interior forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Paracou (interior forest)

Reference: F. Feer. 2008. Responses of dung beetle assemblages to characteristics of rain forest edges. Ecotropica 14:49-62 [ER 307]
Geography
Country: French Guiana


Coordinate: 5° 2' N, 53° 0' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "approximately 37 km northwest of Kourou"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.0

MAP: 3160.0

Habitat comments: "lowland tropical rain forest... well drained with high canopy (ca. 30–40 m) and open understory"

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 2

Site length: 1200

Site width: 8

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1475 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 8

Nets or traps: 20

Net or trap nights: 160

Sampling comments: 2 parallel, 240 m-long transects 50 m apart each with 10 sampling stations unevenly spaced
pitfall traps baited with human dung and left open for four days each over two trapping sessions

Metadata
Sample number: 1434

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-03-01 14:23:13

Modified: 2015-10-03 03:11:43

Abundance distribution
43 species
8 singletons
total count 1475
geometric series index: 67.1
Fisher's α: 8.290
geometric series k: 0.8774
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9016
Shannon's H: 2.6621
Good's u: 0.9946
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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