Sample name: Mejerda Valley

Reference: F. Errouissi, I. Labidi, and S. Nouira. 2009. Seasonal occurrence and local coexistence within scarabaeid dung beetle guilds (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in Tunisian pasture. European Journal of Entomology 106:85-94 [ER 334]

Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 18.0

MAP: 400.0

Habitat comments: "This area consists of an open landscape" and the site is "cattle pasture... in the sub-arid Mediterranean climate zone of Tunisia"

Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 4965 individuals

Years: 2006

Days: 91

Nets or traps: 4

Net or trap nights: 364

Sampling comments: "Four [cow dung] baited pitfall traps situated 30 m apart" (array configuration unclear); "The trap contents were collected one week later and the dung renewed three weeks later for a further sampling period, which was repeated throughout the year" (apparently meaning that there were week-long sampling periods every four weeks over a year, i.e., a total of 13 weeks)
separate data are given for each of the 12 months in 2006 but sample sizes are very small, so the totals are used

Sample number: 654

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-30 08:53:47

Modified: 2015-10-01 10:23:58