Arapaho Prairie
Basic information
Sample name: Arapaho Prairie

Reference: M. L. Jameson. 1989. Diversity of coprophagous Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) in grazed versus ungrazed sandhills prairie in western Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 17:29-35 [ER 294]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Nebraska


Coordinate: 41° 29' 17" N, 101° 50' 55" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: sec. 31-32 T18N R39W

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 22.7

CMT: -2.7

MAP: 515.0

Habitat comments: ungrazed prairie with "abundant and dense" vegetation
climate data based on station 72562 (North Platte Regional Airport)

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 7852 individuals

Years: 1987

Days: 28

Seasons: summer

Nets or traps: 5

Net or trap nights: 140

Sampling comments: five baited pitfall traps placed "at 30 foot intervals in a straight line" and "collected twice per week" over 28 days

Metadata
Sample number: 594

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-27 13:11:46

Modified: 2015-09-28 08:16:55

Abundance distribution
11 species
0 singletons
total count 7852
extrapolated richness: 11.9
Fisher's α: 1.259
geometric series k: 0.4445
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.2743
Shannon's H: 0.6319
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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