Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorâ (dry season)
Basic information
Sample name: Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorâ (dry season)

Reference: L. Vieira and F. A. B. Silva. 2012. Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorâ, Bahia, Brazil. Check List 8(4):733-739 [ER 1061]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Bahia


Coordinate: 13° 53' 0" S, 41° 6' 30" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "on the southern portion of the Chapada Diamantina"
coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in the text

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 21.0

WMT: 26.0

CMT: 16.0

MAP: 600.0

Habitat comments: "semi-arid... the rainy season lasts from November to April... The vegetation of the region is deciduous and xerophytic, composed mainly of shrub caatinga"
MAT, CMT, and WMT are for the Bagisa farm weather station and are from Viana et al. (2014, J Pollination Ecology)

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 6

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 482 individuals

Years: 2010

Days: 1

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 60

Net or trap nights: 60

Sampling comments: "At each site ten pitfall traps were placed containing approximately 50 g of human feces or bovine carcass (decomposing beef) as attractive bait... traps wereinstalled along two transects 20 m apart, and the traps were spaced by 10 m... pitfalls remained installed for 24 hours"

Metadata
Sample number: 1568

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-05-19 13:02:29

Modified: 2016-01-17 06:19:43

Abundance distribution
18 species
3 singletons
total count 482
extrapolated richness: 26.7
Fisher's α: 3.688
geometric series k: 0.7378
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7885
Shannon's H: 1.9398
Good's u: 0.9938
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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