Sample name: Morro do Cerrito

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: disturbed forest

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 23.9

CMT: 11.5

MAP: 1496.0

Habitat comments: "an isolated remnant of Deciduous Forest... Its approximate area is 141.5 ha... with intermediate level of transformation of its forest vegetation into fields, and residences"
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: 11089 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: 661

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-30 20:19:51

Modified: 2020-01-14 09:56:01