Sample name: Mata do Paraíso Research Center

Reference: N. Szinwelski, K. S. C. Yotoko, R. Solar, L. R. Seleme, and C. F. Sperber. 2013. Ethanol fuel improves pitfall traps through rapid sinking and death of captured orthopterans. Environmental Entomology 42(4):758-762 [ER 2143]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "a remnant of semi-deciduous Atlantic forest"

Life forms: orthopterans

Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps

Sample size: 133 individuals

Years: 2012

Days: 2

Nets or traps: 30

Net or trap nights: 60

Sampling comments: sampling was "in February 2012" using "sugarcane juice" used as the killing solution in "pitfall traps... We established a transect of 1,700 m, starting at a distance of 200 m from the forest edge. At the beginning of the transect, a set of four pitfall traps, each containing one of the four solutions chosen at random, was placed perpendicular to the transect, 30 m apart from one another. We repeated this procedure 30 times with 50 m separating each set of pitfall traps" (i.e., there were 30 traps per treatment); "The traps were left in the Þeld for 48 h before they were removed"

Sample number: 2133

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-07-24 17:13:15

Modified: 2016-07-24 07:13:15