Sierra de Baza (medium)
Basic information
Sample name: Sierra de Baza (medium)

Reference: E. Romero-Alcaraz and J. M. Avila. 2000. Effect of elevation and type of habitat on the abundance and diversity of Scarabaeoid dung beetle (Scarabaeoidea) assemblages in a Mediterranean area from Southern Iberian Peninsula. Zoological Studies 39(4):351-359 [ER 303]
Geography
Country: Spain



Coordinate: 37° 20' N, 2° 48' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: elevation 900 to 2271 m

Environment
Habitat: Mediterranean woodland

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

WMT: 23.0

CMT: 3.0

MAP: 427.0

Habitat comments: "The climate is strongly Mediterranean"
"scrubland" and "rather open pine forest"
MAP 313 to 540

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 249 individuals

Years: 1994, 1995

Days: 40

Nets or traps: 6

Net or trap nights: 240

Sampling comments: sites SB4, SB7, and SB8
"Each 2 weeks [over nine month], two [dung-baited] traps were placed separately at each sampling location, 4 m from each other, and were removed after 48 h... The total number of traps analyzed was 296" over nine sites (not just these three)
this apparently means that two traps were laid out in each of three locations for two days every two weeks over an approximate 39 week period, which comes to approximately 240 trap days

Metadata
Sample number: 608

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-27 16:07:30

Modified: 2015-09-28 09:40:50

Abundance distribution
21 species
5 singletons
total count 249
geometric series index: 34.4
Fisher's α: 5.469
geometric series k: 0.8048
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8460
Shannon's H: 2.2940
Good's u: 0.9800
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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