Nouragues Biological Field Station (hour 21)
Basic information
Sample name: Nouragues Biological Field Station (hour 21)
Reference: F. Feer and S. Pincebourde. 2005. Diel flight activity and ecological segregation within an assemblage of tropical forest dung and carrion beetles. Journal of Tropical Ecology 21:21-30 [ER 330]
Geography
Country: French Guiana
Coordinate: 4° 5' N, 53° 40' W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "100 km south of Cayenne"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.3
MAP: 2990.0
Habitat comments: "undisturbed evergreen forest"
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Site length: 180.0
Sampling methods: line transect, baited, pitfall traps
Sample size: 1051 individuals
Years: 1995 - 2002
Days: 16
Nets or traps: 10
Net or trap nights: 160
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: 10 baited pitfall traps "spaced 20 m apart along a linear transect" variously baited with human or howler monkey dung or with carrion; "Each study was carried out over a 24-h period with faeces and a 48-h period with carrion... We ran the trapping programme with 40% carrion (n = 150 trap days), 30% human faeces and 30% howler dung in February, April, May and October between 1995 and 2002" (i.e., 10 traps x 3 days x 4 months x 8 years), but each sample corresponds to a 4 hour sampling period out of a 24 hour day, so the total number of sampling days is 96/6
Metadata
Sample no: 649
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-29 21:40:59
Modified: 2015-09-30 04:29:56
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
38 species
6 singletons
total count 1051
geometric series index: 58.4
Fisher's α: 7.723
geometric series k: 0.8453
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7434
Shannon's H: 2.0942
Good's u: 0.9943
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