Sample name: Bagé (Eragrostis plana)

Reference: P. G. da Silva. 2011. Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of two non-native habitats in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Zoological Studies 50(5):546-559 [ER 341]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: invasive plants

WMT: 23.9

CMT: 11.5

MAP: 1350.0

Habitat comments: "Pampas" with a "mesothermal subtropical" climate that is now taken over by a South African grass
MAP stated in text; CMT and WMT based on station 83980 (Bagé)

Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 1

Site area: 0.283

Sampling methods: quadrat,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 170 individuals

Years: 2006

Days: 122

Nets or traps: 4

Net or trap nights: 488

Sampling comments: four human excrement-, carrion-, and banana-baited pitfall traps arrayed in a Y-shape pattern 30 m apart from each other (i.e., outlining a 60 m-diameter circle with an area of 2827 m2) and "The study was conducted from Sept. to Dec. 2006, with sampling every 2 wk" with traps apparently in place the whole time

Sample number: 663

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-30 20:52:22

Modified: 2015-10-01 10:43:59