Centro Cientifico de Rio Palenque (February 1976)
Basic information
Sample name: Centro Cientifico de Rio Palenque (February 1976)
Reference: S. B. Peck and A. Forsyth. 1982. Composition, structure, and competitive behaviour in a guild of Ecuadorian rain forest dung beetles (Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 60:1624-1634 [ER 324]
Geography
Country: Ecuador
State: Pinchincha
Coordinate: 1° 41' S, 79° 10' W
Geography comments: 47 km south of Santo Domingo (coordinate extrapolated from Santo Domingo)
elevation 200 - 250 m
elevation 200 - 250 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 27.5
CMT: 20.5
MAP: 3800.0
Habitat comments: "primary rain forest"
MAP stated in text; CMT and WMT based on Leck 1979
MAP stated in text; CMT and WMT based on Leck 1979
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Site length: 700.0
Sampling methods: line transect, baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 3011 individuals
Years: 1976
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: human dung-baited pitfall traps along a single 700 m transect; number of traps and days of trapping are entirely unclear
Metadata
Sample no: 640
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-28 21:07:29
Modified: 2015-09-29 10:29:27
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
28 species
4 singletons
total count 3011
geometric series index: 38.3
Fisher's α: 4.268
geometric series k: 0.7805
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8403
Shannon's H: 2.1591
Good's u: 0.9987
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