Highland Road Observatory Park (March)
Basic information
Sample name: Highland Road Observatory Park (March)

Reference: M. G. Radtke, C. E. Carlton, and G. B. Williamson. 2008. A dung beetle assemblage in an urban park in Louisiana. Southeastern Naturalist 7(1):101-110 [ER 1059]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Louisiana


Coordinate: 30° 20' 42" N, 91° 4' 25" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in Baton Rouge"

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: other protected area

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.2

CMT: 11.8

MAP: 1783.0

Habitat comments: "a fragment of secondary forest of approximately 32.5 ha on the edge of the city... classified as bottomland hardwood"
climate data are for station BTR

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 214 individuals

Years: 2004

Days: 5

Nets or traps: 9

Net or trap nights: 45

Sampling comments: "8 to 10 pitfall traps, baited with dung of Sus scrofa L. (pig), spaced at least 20 m apart... Traps were baited on the first day of a collecting period, and the contents collected 5 days later"

Metadata
Sample number: 1566

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-05-19 11:39:06

Modified: 2020-01-14 09:16:52

Abundance distribution
9 species
2 singletons
total count 214
geometric series index: 13.7
Fisher's α: 1.902
geometric series k: 0.5765
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7033
Shannon's H: 1.4582
Good's u: 0.9907
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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