Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project (no harvest management)
Basic information
Sample name: Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project (no harvest management)
Reference: A. Masís and R. J. Marquis. 2009. Effects of even-aged and uneven-aged timber management on dung beetle community attributes in a Missouri Ozark forest. Forest Ecology and Management 257:536-545 [ER 1060]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Coordinate: 37° 9' N, 91° 4' W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: " in Shannon, Reynolds, and Carter Counties in southeastern Missouri" (coordinate based on Current River Conservation Area, which is roughly at the midpoint of these three counties)
Climate and habitat
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 32.0
CMT: -7.0
MAP: 1140.0
Habitat comments: "primarily oak–hickory and oak– pine communities... the landscape is 84% forested"
climate data are apparently for the MOFEP and are from Fan et al. (2008, Forest Ecology and Management)
climate data are apparently for the MOFEP and are from Fan et al. (2008, Forest Ecology and Management)
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 3
Sampling methods: baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 902
Days: 6
Nets or traps: 24
Net or trap nights: 144
Sampling comments: "72 pitfall traps baited with approximately half a tablespoon of fresh human dung" with "eight traps per site, with four in open canopy areas, and four in closed canopy forest"; there were three sampling sessions with two one-day sampling events per session
Metadata
Sample: 1567
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-05-19 11:53:20
Modified: 2016-01-17 17:24:40
Abundance distribution
15 species
3 singletons
total count 902
standardised richness: not computable
Fisher's α: 2.556
geometric series k: 0.6887
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8536
Shannon's H: 2.1036
Good's u: 0.9967
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