Jhelum (croplands)
Basic information
Sample name: Jhelum (croplands)
Reference: M. Ghazanfar, M. Hussain, Z. Abbas, and M. Batool. 2017. Diversity, composition and distribution of dung beetle fauna in croplands and pastures of Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Science 69(4):369-374 [ER 3294]
Geography
Country: Pakistan
State: Punjab
Coordinate: 32.933498° N, 73.720703° E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "at the northern boundary of Punjab"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: cropland
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Habitat comments: "humid subtropical climate"
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sites: 9
Sampling methods: no design, hand capture
Sample size: 252 individuals
Years: 2015, 2016
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "There were nine sampling places represented by both croplands and pastures... The sampling was carried out from each selected site fortnightly from March 2015- February, 2016. Specimens were randomly collected from each study site by hand picking and homogenized method"
Metadata
Sample no: 3663
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2020-06-07 19:07:32
Modified: 2020-06-07 09:07:32
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
12 species
1 singleton
total count 252
geometric series index: 14.9
Fisher's α: 2.623
geometric series k: 0.7238
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8373
Shannon's H: 2.0464
Good's u: 0.9961
Register
| Aphodius granaries | 17 | |
| Aphodius moestus | 25 | |
| Aphodius rufipes | 10 | |
| Chironitis hungarius | 15 | |
| Gymnopleurus biltallosus | 8 | |
| Helicepus bucephalus | 1 | |
| Oniticellus cinctus | 3 | |
| Oniticellus pallipes | 13 | |
| Onitis excavatus | 70 | |
| Digitonthophagus gazella | 40 | |
| "Onthophagus gazella" | ||
| Onthophagus mopsus | 2 | |
| Onthophagus remosellus | 48 | |