Real Minero
Basic information
Sample name: Real Minero
Reference: G. Halffter and L. Aurellano. 2002. Response of dung beetle diversity to human-induced changes in a tropical landscape. Biotropica 34(1):144-154 [ER 312]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Veracruz
Coordinate: 19° 26' 39" N, 96° 35' 18" W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: altitude based on map
Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: pasture
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 28.0
CMT: 21.5
MAP: 1547.0
Habitat comments: originally "tropical deciduous forest" but now "patches of forest... interspersed with pastureland"
climate data based on station 76692 (Heroica Veracruz)
climate data based on station 76692 (Heroica Veracruz)
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sampling methods: no design, baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 2179
Nets or traps: 440
Net or trap nights: 556
Sampling comments: four kinds of excrement- or carrion-baited traps with respectively 40 traps left open for 24 hours and 168 left open for 12 hours; the same setup; 20 traps left open for 24 hours; and 4 left open for 30 days, for a total of 208 + 208 +20 + 120 = 556 trap days
Metadata
Sample: 624
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-28 11:37:37
Modified: 2015-09-28 21:01:24
Abundance distribution
14 species
2 singletons
total count 2179
Fisher's α: 2.002
geometric series k: 0.5862
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6767
Shannon's H: 1.4962
Good's u: 0.9991
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