Morro do Elefante
Basic information
Sample name: Morro do Elefante
Reference: P. G. Da Silva, F. Z. Vaz-de-Mello, and R. A. Di Mare. 2013. Diversity and seasonality of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in forest fragments in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 85(2):679-697 [ER 340]
Geography
Country: Brazil
State: Rio Grande do Sul
Coordinate: 29° 40' 33" S, 53° 43' 14" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 19.9
WMT: 25.9
CMT: 14.1
MAP: 1520.0
Habitat comments: "Seasonal Deciduous Forest"; "The total area of this forest fragment is around 729.3 ha"
climate data are based on ER 1635 (de Lima et al. 2010)
climate data are based on ER 1635 (de Lima et al. 2010)
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 3
Site length: 720
Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps
Sample size: 7087 individuals
Years: 2009, 2010
Days: 365
Nets or traps: 27
Net or trap nights: 9855
Sampling comments: 27 human excrement, rotten meat and rotting banana baited pitfall traps spaced 30 m apart along three transects; "The samplings were collected between May 1, 2009 and April 30, 2010, in fortnightly collections. Thus, there were two collections every month... The traps remained in the field during all time of duration of the study" (which means that trapping was in progress every day for exactly a year)
Metadata
Sample number: 660
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-30 19:00:18
Modified: 2015-12-19 00:49:58
Abundance distribution
31 species
0 singletons
total count 7087
geometric series index: 33.7
Fisher's α: 4.167
geometric series k: 0.7833
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7807
Shannon's H: 2.1351
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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