Paracou (interior forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Paracou (interior forest)
Reference: F. Feer. 2008. Responses of dung beetle assemblages to characteristics of rain forest edges. Ecotropica 14:49-62 [ER 307]
Geography
Country: French Guiana
Coordinate: 5° 2' N, 53° 0' W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "approximately 37 km northwest of Kourou"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.0
MAP: 3160.0
Habitat comments: "lowland tropical rain forest... well drained with high canopy (ca. 30–40 m) and open understory"
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 2
Site length: 1200.000
Site width: 8.000
Sampling methods: line transect, baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 1475
Years: 2005
Days: 8
Nets or traps: 20
Net or trap nights: 160
Sampling comments: 2 parallel, 240 m-long transects 50 m apart each with 10 sampling stations unevenly spaced
pitfall traps baited with human dung and left open for four days each over two trapping sessions
pitfall traps baited with human dung and left open for four days each over two trapping sessions
Metadata
Sample: 1434
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-03-01 14:23:13
Modified: 2015-10-03 13:11:43
Abundance distribution
43 species
8 singletons
total count 1475
extrapolated richness: 56.8
Fisher's α: 8.290
geometric series k: 0.8774
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9016
Shannon's H: 2.6621
Good's u: 0.9946
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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