Chiruisla Station
Basic information
Sample name: Chiruisla Station

Reference: C. Carpio, D. A. Donoso, G. Ramón, and O. Dangles. 2009. Short term response of dung beetle communities to disturbance by road construction in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 45(4):455-469 [ER 314]
Geography
Country: Ecuador

State: SucumbĂ­os


Coordinate: 0° 38' 39" S, 75° 54' 45" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "close to the Chiruisla Village of the Quichua Territory"
elevation 180 to 250 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 32.0

CMT: 22.0

MAP: 2400.0

Habitat comments: "evergreen lowland wet forest"

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 1

Site length: 140

Site width: 90

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 2384 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 18

Nets or traps: 24

Net or trap nights: 432

Sampling comments: three transects within a 140 x 90 m plot each having 8 alternately tuna fish- or human excrement-baited pitfall traps, with each transect sampled on three occasions for six days at a time

Metadata
Sample number: 626

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-28 12:22:30

Modified: 2015-09-29 09:53:05

Abundance distribution
60 species
5 singletons
total count 2384
geometric series index: 74.8
Fisher's α: 11.179
geometric series k: 0.9108
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9451
Shannon's H: 3.2545
Good's u: 0.9979
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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