Ipassa Reserve (large rainy season)
Basic information
Sample name: Ipassa Reserve (large rainy season)

Reference: N. van Vliet, R. Nasi, and J. P. Lumaret. 2008. Factors influencing duiker dung decay in north-east Gabon: are dung beetles hiding duikers?. African Journal of Ecology 47:40-47 [ER 363]
Geography
Country: Gabon


Coordinate: 0° 31' N, 12° 48' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "close to the IRET (Institute of Tropical Ecology) research station" (coordinate based on Ipassa Makokou Biosphere Reserve)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: biosphere reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 23.9

MAP: 1672.0

Habitat comments: "a transition forest between the evergreen and deciduous forests" with two rainy and two dry seasons

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Site length: 450

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 243 individuals

Years: 2005, 2006

Days: 9

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 10

Net or trap nights: 90

Sampling comments: "ten pitfall traps, separated by 50 m and baited with fresh red duiker dung" that were trapped over one day and night each month during nine months scattered across a 13 month period
this sample combines counts of beetles captured during the day and overnight (listed in separate tables)

Metadata
Sample number: 693

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-01 14:17:13

Modified: 2020-05-29 10:12:29

Abundance distribution
20 species
2 singletons
total count 243
extrapolated richness: 26.7
Fisher's α: 5.165
geometric series k: 0.8148
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8970
Shannon's H: 2.5432
Good's u: 0.9918
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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