Highland Road Observatory Park (March)
Basic information
Sample name: Highland Road Observatory Park (March)
Reference: M. G. Radtke, C. E. Carlton, and G. B. Williamson. 2008. A dung beetle assemblage in an urban park in Louisiana. Southeastern Naturalist 7(1):101-110 [ER 1059]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Louisiana
Coordinate: 30° 20' 42" N, 91° 4' 25" W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "in Baton Rouge"
Climate and habitat
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Protection: other protected area
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 28.2
CMT: 11.8
MAP: 1783.0
Habitat comments: "a fragment of secondary forest of approximately 32.5 ha on the edge of the city... classified as bottomland hardwood"
climate data are for station BTR
climate data are for station BTR
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sampling methods: baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 214
Years: 2004
Days: 5
Nets or traps: 9
Net or trap nights: 45
Sampling comments: "8 to 10 pitfall traps, baited with dung of Sus scrofa L. (pig), spaced at least 20 m apart... Traps were baited on the first day of a collecting period, and the contents collected 5 days later"
Metadata
Sample: 1566
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-05-19 11:39:06
Modified: 2020-01-14 20:16:52
Abundance distribution
9 species
2 singletons
total count 214
standardised richness: 4.7
Fisher's α: 1.902
geometric series k: 0.5765
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7033
Shannon's H: 1.4582
Good's u: 0.9907
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| Aphodius rusicola | 82 | |
| Ateuchus histeroides | 3 | |
| Canthon viridis | 1 | |
| Copris minutus | 2 | |
| Dichotomius carolinus | 10 | |
| Digitonthophagus gazella | 1 | |
| "Onthophagus gazella" | ||
| Onthophagus hecate hecate | 77 | |
| Pseudocanthon perplexus | 23 | |