Charles Darwin Ecological Refuge (forest habitat)
Basic information
Sample name: Charles Darwin Ecological Refuge (forest habitat)

Reference: F. A. B. Silva, C. M. Q. Costa, R. C. Moura, and A. I. Farias. 2010. Study of the dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) community at two sites: Atlantic forest and clear-cut, Pernambuco, Brazil. Environmental Entomology 39(2):359-367 [ER 320]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Pernambuco


Coordinate: -7.83° S, -34.74° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the municipality of Igarassu"
coordinate stated in the text is 7° 48' 37" S, 34° 27' 25" W, which is certainly wrong
correct coordinate is shown by Google Maps

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 25.0

MAP: 2000.0

Habitat comments: "Atlantic rainforest" and specifically in "primary native vegetation"

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 6

Site area: 0.96

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1686 individuals

Years: 2006

Days: 24

Nets or traps: 24

Net or trap nights: 576

Sampling comments: 24 pitfall traps "baited with human dung and bovine carrion" and "distributed over four points that formed a square" with points "40 m apart" (i.e., six 40 x 40 m quadrats) that were operated for 48 hours once a month over 12 months

Metadata
Sample number: 634

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-28 15:03:28

Modified: 2021-07-11 05:24:43

Abundance distribution
21 species
4 singletons
total count 1686
geometric series index: 29.4
Fisher's α: 3.379
geometric series k: 0.7047
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5541
Shannon's H: 1.3629
Good's u: 0.9976
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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