Sample name: Nouragues Biological Field Station (hour 21)

Reference: F. Feer and S. Pincebourde. 2005. Diel flight activity and ecological segregation within an assemblage of tropical forest dung and carrion beetles. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21:21-30 [ER 330]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.3

MAP: 2990.0

Habitat comments: "undisturbed evergreen forest"

Life forms: scarab beetles

Site length: 180

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1051 individuals

Years: 1995 - 2002

Days: 16

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 160

Sampling comments: 10 baited pitfall traps "spaced 20 m apart along a linear transect" variously baited with human or howler monkey dung or with carrion; "Each study was carried out over a 24-h period with faeces and a 48-h period with carrion... We ran the trapping programme with 40% carrion (n = 150 trap days), 30% human faeces and 30% howler dung in February, April, May and October between 1995 and 2002" (i.e., 10 traps x 3 days x 4 months x 8 years), but each sample corresponds to a 4 hour sampling period out of a 24 hour day, so the total number of sampling days is 96/6

Sample number: 649

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-29 21:40:59

Modified: 2015-09-30 04:29:56