Sample name: Campus da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Reference: P. G. Da Silva, F. Z. Vaz-de-Mello, and R. A. Di Mare. 2013. Diversity and seasonality of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in forest fragments in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 85(2):679-697 [ER 340]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 23.9

CMT: 11.5

MAP: 1496.0

Habitat comments: "a forest fragment with secondary native vegetation in the understory, the border and in smaller contiguous fragments, as well as mixed plantations of Pinus spp. and Eucalyptus spp. in the surrounding... The area size is approximately 35.2 ha"
climate data based on station 83980 (Bagé)

Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 3

Site length: 720

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1523 individuals

Years: 2009, 2010

Days: 365

Nets or traps: 27

Net or trap nights: 9855

Sampling comments: 27 human excrement, rotten meat and rotting banana baited pitfall traps spaced 30 m apart along three transects; "The samplings were collected between May 1, 2009 and April 30, 2010, in fortnightly collections. Thus, there were two collections every month... The traps remained in the field during all time of duration of the study" (which means that trapping was in progress every day for exactly a year)

Sample number: 662

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-30 20:21:15

Modified: 2015-10-01 10:41:36