Sample name: Skukuza (control)

Reference: M. P. Robertson, K. R. Harris, J. A. Coetzee, L. C. Foxcroft, A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman, and B. J. van Rensburg. 2011. Assessing local scale impacts of Opuntia stricta (Cactaceae) invasion on beetle and spider diversity in Kruger National Park, South Africa. African Zoology 46(2):205-223 [ER 2788]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: " in the Sabie-Crocodile thorn thicket habitat type"

Life forms: spiders, beetles, ground beetles, leaf beetles, scarab beetles

Sampling methods: no design, pitfall traps, hand capture

Sample size: 606 individuals

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Pitfall traps consistedd of two-litre plastic buckets... 100 pitfall traps were used with five traps placed in each replicate. Each trap was placed 1.5 m away from the next within the replicate in a circular pattern. During each sampling event, traps were left open for 10 days... A 1 m2 quadrat was placed randomly at two locations within each replicate and all leaf litter was sifted" and "Two 1 m2 quadrats were randomly placed within each replicate on each sampling event" and spiders were collected "for 15 minutes", although spiders were also collected in the pitfalls

Sample no: 3015

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-06-08 15:27:49

Modified: 2018-06-08 05:29:05