Centro Cientifico de Rio Palenque (February 1976)
Basic information
Sample name: Centro Cientifico de Rio Palenque (February 1976)

Reference: S. B. Peck and A. Forsyth. 1982. Composition, structure, and competitive behaviour in a guild of Ecuadorian rain forest dung beetles (Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 60:1624-1634 [ER 324]
Geography
Country: Ecuador

State: Pinchincha


Coordinate: 0° 41' S, 79° 10' W
Geography comments: 47 km south of Santo Domingo (coordinate extrapolated from Santo Domingo)
elevation 200 - 250 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.5

CMT: 20.5

MAP: 3800.0

Habitat comments: "primary rain forest"
MAP stated in text; CMT and WMT based on Leck 1979

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Site length: 700

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 3011 individuals

Years: 1976

Sampling comments: human dung-baited pitfall traps along a single 700 m transect; number of traps and days of trapping are entirely unclear

Metadata
Sample number: 640

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-28 21:07:29

Modified: 2015-09-29 10:29:27

Abundance distribution
28 species
4 singletons
total count 3011
extrapolated richness: 38.3
Fisher's α: 4.268
geometric series k: 0.7805
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8403
Shannon's H: 2.1591
Good's u: 0.9987
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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