Paracou (roadside forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Paracou (roadside forest)

Reference: F. Feer. 2008. Responses of dung beetle assemblages to characteristics of rain forest edges. Ecotropica 14:49-62 [ER 307]
Geography
Country: French Guiana


Coordinate: 5° 2' N, 53° 0' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "approximately 37 km northwest of Kourou"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.0

MAP: 3160.0

Habitat comments: "lowland tropical rain forest... secondary regrowth"

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 5

Site length: 1200

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 3652 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 4

Nets or traps: 30

Net or trap nights: 120

Sampling comments: 5 parallel, 240 m-long transects 50 m apart each with 6 sampling stations unevenly spaced
pitfall traps baited with human dung and left open for four days

Metadata
Sample number: 615

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-27 21:13:43

Modified: 2015-03-01 03:23:00

Abundance distribution
58 species
10 singletons
total count 3652
geometric series index: 83.6
Fisher's α: 9.790
geometric series k: 0.8878
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8830
Shannon's H: 2.6078
Good's u: 0.9973
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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