Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorá (wet season)
Basic information
Sample name: Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorá (wet season)
Reference: L. Vieira and F. A. B. Silva. 2012. Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorá, Bahia, Brazil. Check List 8(4):733-739 [ER 1061]
Geography
Country: Brazil
State: Bahia
Coordinate: 13° 53' 0" S, 41° 6' 30" W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text as range
Geography comments: "on the southern portion of the Chapada Diamantina"
coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in the text
coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in the text
Climate and habitat
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland
Substrate: ground surface
MAP: 600.0
Habitat comments: "semi-arid... the rainy season lasts from November to April... The vegetation of the region is deciduous and xerophytic, composed mainly of shrub caatinga"
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 6
Sampling methods: line transect, baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 1661
Years: 2011
Days: 1
Seasons: wet or monsoon
Nets or traps: 60
Net or trap nights: 60
Sampling comments: "At each site ten pitfall traps were placed containing approximately 50 g of human feces or bovine carcass (decomposing beef) as attractive bait... traps wereinstalled along two transects 20 m apart, and the traps were spaced by 10 m... pitfalls remained installed for 24 hours"
Metadata
Sample: 1569
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-05-19 13:06:07
Modified: 2015-05-19 13:06:07
Abundance distribution
16 species
2 singletons
total count 1661
Fisher's α: 2.454
geometric series k: 0.6622
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8249
Shannon's H: 1.9783
Good's u: 0.9988
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