Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (contiguous forest) Paracou (roadside forest) Viçosa (horse dung) Nouragues Biological Field Station (hour 21) Fazenda Canchim Nouragues Research Station (2003 FIT/creek) Kutari Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado (1997 forest samples) Paracou (interior forest) The Ecological Register
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Onthophagus rubrescens (scarab beetle): 9 samples
Standardised estimates are produced by subsampling and then extrapolating.
Raw richness may be higher when an abundance distribution is uneven.