Sample name: Mont Grand Matoury National Nature Reserve (February 2009)

Reference: F. Feer and O. Boissier. 2015. Variations in dung beetle assemblages across a gradient of hunting in a tropical forest. Ecological Indicators 57:164-170 [ER 1141]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: nature reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 3686.0

Habitat comments: the general habitat is "20–35 m high forest with closed canopy and open understorey" and at the location is "moderately disturbed primary forest on the hill, surrounded by old secondary forest on the slopes. It is less than a kilometer away from an inhabited place and the forest is almost completely surrounded by anthropized land"

Life forms: scarab beetles

Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 916 individuals

Years: 2007

Days: 4

Nets or traps: 12

Net or trap nights: 48

Sampling comments: pitfall traps "were baited with c. 40 g of fresh human faeces... Twelve traps (ten in Nouragues) were placed at each site, separated by 40–50 m along a linear transect... Traps were operated for 2 × 48 h periods"

Sample number: 1665

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-01 19:53:16

Modified: 2015-07-01 09:53:16