Boca del Chajul
Basic information
Sample name: Boca del Chajul

Reference: M. A. Morón. 1987. The necrophagous Scarabaeinae Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from a coffee plantation in Chiapas, Mexico: habits and phenology. Coleopterists Bulletin 41(3):225-232 [ER 293]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Chiapas


Coordinate: 16° 20' N, 92° 46' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Marqués de Comillas

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.1

CMT: 25.6

MAP: 1993.0

Habitat comments: "rain forest" and at least some "cacao plantations"
climate data based on station 76903 (Tapachula), which is at a similar altitude

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sampling methods: baited,other traps

Sample size: 837 individuals

Sampling comments: data repeated from Hallfter and Edmonds (1982)
a single NTP-80 trap baited with carrion

Metadata
Sample number: 592

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-27 10:29:03

Modified: 2015-09-28 08:10:35

Abundance distribution
19 species
0 singletons
total count 837
geometric series index: 22.3
Fisher's α: 3.459
geometric series k: 0.7535
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7858
Shannon's H: 1.9835
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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