Paracou (roadside forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Paracou (roadside forest)
Reference: F. Feer. 2008. Responses of dung beetle assemblages to characteristics of rain forest edges. Ecotropica 14:49-62 [ER 307]
Geography
Country: French Guiana
Coordinate: 5° 2' N, 53° 0' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "approximately 37 km northwest of Kourou"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.0
MAP: 3160.0
Habitat comments: "lowland tropical rain forest... secondary regrowth"
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 5
Site length: 1200
Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps
Sample size: 3652 individuals
Years: 2005
Days: 4
Nets or traps: 30
Net or trap nights: 120
Sampling comments: 5 parallel, 240 m-long transects 50 m apart each with 6 sampling stations unevenly spaced
pitfall traps baited with human dung and left open for four days
pitfall traps baited with human dung and left open for four days
Metadata
Sample number: 615
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-27 21:13:43
Modified: 2015-03-01 03:23:00
Abundance distribution
58 species
10 singletons
total count 3652
extrapolated richness: 83.6
Fisher's α: 9.790
geometric series k: 0.8878
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8830
Shannon's H: 2.6078
Good's u: 0.9973
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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