Amazone Nature Lodge (February 2009)
Basic information
Sample name: Amazone Nature Lodge (February 2009)
Sample aka: Montagne de Kaw
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]
Geography
Country: French Guiana
Coordinate: 4° 33' N, 52° 12' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: a ridge with elevation up to 309 m and "The sampling site is on the upper slope"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 32.5
CMT: 22.4
MAP: 4099.0
Habitat comments: the habitat is "20–35 m high forest with closed canopy and open understorey"
CMT and WMT are for Rochambeau and are from Roger et al. (2013, Am J Trop Med Hyg)
CMT and WMT are for Rochambeau and are from Roger et al. (2013, Am J Trop Med Hyg)
Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles
Sampling methods: baited,pitfall traps
Sample size: 764 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"
Metadata
Sample number: 1664
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-07-01 19:47:58
Modified: 2016-01-17 05:58:45
Abundance distribution
43 species
9 singletons
total count 764
extrapolated richness: 64.5
Fisher's α: 9.855
geometric series k: 0.8895
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9149
Shannon's H: 2.9403
Good's u: 0.9882
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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