Vicente Guerrero (IF)
Basic information
Sample name: Vicente Guerrero (IF)

Reference: L. Arellano, J. L. León-Cortés, and G. Halffter. 2008. Response of dung beetle assemblages to landscape structure in remnant natural and modified habitats in southern Mexico. Insect Conservation and Diversity 1:253-262 [ER 350]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Chiapas



Coordinate: 16° 51' 23" N, 93° 12' 6" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: coordinate is the average of ranges given in text
elevation range 767 to 1088 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 1200.0

Habitat comments: "tropical dry forest, fragments of secondary forest and fallow land in various stages of succession" and specifically "two fragments without contiguous living fences and covering an area < 2 ha"
MAP stated in text; CMT and WMT unclear because the nearest climate station (76741, Coatzacoalcos) is at sea level

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 2

Site length: 250

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 514 individuals

Days: 20

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 12

Net or trap nights: 240

Sampling comments: two transects each with six human excrement-, cow dung-, or squid-baited pitfall traps separated by 25 m (i.e., a total transect length of 2 x 125 m) that were sampled on 20 occasions "during two rainy seasons: from May to October 2004, and from May to August 2005"
there is a conflict in the text, with "bait replaced every 48 h" but traps supposedly "visited" for 6 h on each occasion; I assume that 20 visits means 20 sampling days, period

Metadata
Sample number: 677

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-31 11:07:55

Modified: 2015-10-02 08:48:14

Abundance distribution
16 species
4 singletons
total count 514
geometric series index: 25.4
Fisher's α: 3.133
geometric series k: 0.6742
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4689
Shannon's H: 1.2001
Good's u: 0.9922
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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