Real Minero
Basic information
Sample name: Real Minero

Reference: G. Halffter and L. Aurellano. 2002. Response of dung beetle diversity to human-induced changes in a tropical landscape. Biotropica 34(1):144-154 [ER 312]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Veracruz


Coordinate: 19° 26' 39" N, 96° 35' 18" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: altitude based on map

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.0

CMT: 21.5

MAP: 1547.0

Habitat comments: originally "tropical deciduous forest" but now "patches of forest... interspersed with pastureland"
climate data based on station 76692 (Heroica Veracruz)

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sampling methods: no design,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 2179 individuals

Nets or traps: 440

Net or trap nights: 556

Sampling comments: four kinds of excrement- or carrion-baited traps with respectively 40 traps left open for 24 hours and 168 left open for 12 hours; the same setup; 20 traps left open for 24 hours; and 4 left open for 30 days, for a total of 208 + 208 +20 + 120 = 556 trap days

Metadata
Sample number: 624

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-28 11:37:37

Modified: 2015-09-28 11:01:24

Abundance distribution
14 species
2 singletons
total count 2179
geometric series index: 17.3
Fisher's α: 2.002
geometric series k: 0.5862
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6767
Shannon's H: 1.4962
Good's u: 0.9991
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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