Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (contiguous forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (contiguous forest)

Reference: B. C. Klein. 1989. Effects of forest fragmentation on dung and carrion beetle communities in central Amazonia. Ecology 70(6):1715-1725 [ER 296]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Amazonas


Coordinate: 2° 25' S, 59° 50' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "80 km north of Manaus"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.7

MAP: 2186.0

Habitat comments: climate data based on Andresen (2002) (see samples 621 and 622)

Methods
Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 12

Site length: 1224

Sampling methods: line transect,baited,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1381 individuals

Years: 1986

Days: 4

Nets or traps: 18

Net or trap nights: 72

Sampling comments: one sites within each of three blocks each consisting of a six trap transect spaced at 17 m, with treatments "run simultaneously for 4 d"
aged beef-baited pitfall traps

Metadata
Sample number: 596

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-27 13:27:42

Modified: 2015-10-03 03:09:04

Abundance distribution
44 species
5 singletons
total count 1381
geometric series index: 56.2
Fisher's α: 8.666
geometric series k: 0.8793
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9251
Shannon's H: 3.0010
Good's u: 0.9964
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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