Ba Be National Park (dung beetles)
Basic information
Sample name: Ba Be National Park (dung beetles)
Reference: L. Hayes, D. J. Mann, A. L. Monastyrskii, and O. T. Lewis. 2009. Rapid assessments of tropical dung beetle and butterfly assemblages: contrasting trends along a forest disturbance gradient. Insect Conservation and Diversity 2:194-203 [ER 331]
Geography
Country: Vietnam
State: Bac Can
Coordinate: 22° 24' N, 105° 37' E
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: selective logging
MAT: 22.0
MAP: 1300.0
Habitat comments: "lowland evergreen forest" including "a range of forest disturbance levels"
there is a six-month dry season and the climate is "monsoon tropical"
there is a six-month dry season and the climate is "monsoon tropical"
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 1
Site length: 1500.000
Sampling methods: line transect, baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 699
Years: 2005
Days: 28
Nets or traps: 15
Net or trap nights: 420
Sampling comments: "15 sampling points along a 1.5 km straight-line transect... Trapping took place on 28 days between 4 August and 5 September" and there was one trap per point
dung beetles were trapped "using [buffalo] dung-baited pitfall traps"
dung beetles were trapped "using [buffalo] dung-baited pitfall traps"
Metadata
Sample: 1782
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-10-01 20:03:10
Modified: 2015-10-01 20:07:58
Abundance distribution

48 species
12 singletons
total count 699
standardised richness: 23.4
Fisher's α: 11.685
geometric series k: 0.8946
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8827
Shannon's H: 2.6972
Good's u: 0.9829
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