Ba Be National Park (dung beetles)
Basic information
Sample name: Ba Be National Park (dung beetles)

Reference: L. Hayes, D. J. Mann, A. L. Monastyrskii, and O. T. Lewis. 2009. Rapid assessments of tropical dung beetle and butterfly assemblages: contrasting trends along a forest disturbance gradient. Insect Conservation and Diversity 2:194-203 [ER 331]
Geography
Country: Vietnam

State: Bac Can


Coordinate: 22° 24' N, 105° 37' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

MAT: 22.0

MAP: 1300.0

Habitat comments: "lowland evergreen forest" including "a range of forest disturbance levels"
there is a six-month dry season and the climate is "monsoon tropical"

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 1

Site length: 1500

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 699 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 28

Nets or traps: 15

Net or trap nights: 420

Sampling comments: "15 sampling points along a 1.5 km straight-line transect... Trapping took place on 28 days between 4 August and 5 September" and there was one trap per point
dung beetles were trapped "using [buffalo] dung-baited pitfall traps"

Metadata
Sample number: 1782

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-10-01 20:03:10

Modified: 2015-10-01 10:07:58

Abundance distribution
48 species
12 singletons
total count 699
geometric series index: 88.0
Fisher's α: 11.685
geometric series k: 0.8946
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8827
Shannon's H: 2.6972
Good's u: 0.9829
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Caccobius (Caccophilus) simplex2
Cassolus aff. nudus3
Catharsius molossus8
Copris cariniceps44
Copris carinicus64
Drepanocerus aff. sinicus14
Drepanocerus sp. 12
Liatongus vertagus3
Microcopris aff. reflexus1
Microcopris propinquus80
Ochicanthon obscurum3
Onitis falcatus17
Onthophagus aff. luridipennis11
Onthophagus aff. remotus188
Onthophagus aff. taurinus44
Onthophagus (Gibbonthophagus) proletarius9
Onthophagus (Indachorius) magnini1
Onthophagus (Indachorius) sp. 152
Onthophagus (Macronthophagus) cludtsi1
Onthophagus (Onthophagiellus) sp. 181
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) deflexicollis3
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) orientalis1
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) pacificus7
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) purpurascens2
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 42
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 52
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 623
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 72
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 82
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 91
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 101
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 121
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 132
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 141
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 171
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 212
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sp. 242
Onthophagus (Paraphanaeomorphus) comittoides3
Onthophagus (Paraphanaeomorphus) sp. 222
Onthophagus (Parascatonomus) anceyi26
Onthophagus (Parascatonomus) muticifrons6
Onthophagus (Parascatonomus) rudis2
Onthophagus (Serrophorus) sp. 111
Onthophagus (Sunenaga) anguliceps31
Paragymnopleurus brahminus66
Paragymnopleurus sinuatus2
Sisyphus laoticus1
Synapsis yama6