Sample name: Nouragues Research Station (November 2007)

Reference: F. Feer and O. Boissier. 2015. Variations in dung beetle assemblages across a gradient of hunting in a tropical forest. Ecological Indicators 57:164-170 [ER 1141]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.0

MAP: 2690.0

Habitat comments: "The climate is of equatorial type and is characterized by one dry (August–November) and one wet season (December–July)" and the habitat is "20–35 m high forest with closed canopy and open understorey"

Life forms: scarab beetles

Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 584 individuals

Years: 2007

Days: 4

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 40

Sampling comments: pitfall traps "were baited with c. 40 g of fresh human faeces... Twelve traps (ten in Nouragues) were placed at each site, separated by 40–50 m along a linear transect... Traps were operated for 2 × 48 h periods"

Sample number: 1663

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-01 19:35:19

Modified: 2015-07-01 09:35:19