Area de Proteçäo Ambiental de Cafuringa (feces-baited)
Basic information
Sample name: Area de Proteçäo Ambiental de Cafuringa (feces-baited)

Reference: R. V. Nunes, M. R. Frizzas, and F. Z. Vaz-de-Mello. 2012. Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of a rupestrian field at Cafuringa, Distrito Federal, Brazil: commented list of species. Biota Neotropica 12(4):125-129 [ER 1063]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Distrito Federal


Coordinate: 15° 32' S, 47° 2' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: longitude reported as 42º 2' (apparently meaning 47º 2')

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 22.9

CMT: 18.5

MAP: 1505.0

Habitat comments: "a rupestrian field area" (apparently meaning a field developed on a rocky hilltop)
Cwb climate
climate data are based on station 83377 (Brasilia)

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 571 individuals

Days: 12

Nets or traps: 9

Net or trap nights: 118

Sampling comments: "six mensal samples in three sites (A, B, C)" with three human feces-baited pitfall traps per site and with traps left open for 48 hours at a time; there were five extra traps in site A one month

Metadata
Sample number: 1571

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-05-19 20:37:19

Modified: 2016-01-17 06:13:37

Abundance distribution
26 species
3 singletons
total count 571
geometric series index: 34.9
Fisher's α: 5.613
geometric series k: 0.8137
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8507
Shannon's H: 2.3824
Good's u: 0.9948
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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