Cusco-Pilcopata Highway
Basic information
Sample name: Cusco-Pilcopata Highway

Sample aka: Manu National Park

Reference: S. A. Maveety, R. A. Browne, and T. L. Erwin. 2011. Carabidae diversity along an altitudinal gradient in a Peruvian cloud forest (Coleoptera). ZooKeys 147:651-666 [ER 1047]
Geography
Country: Peru

State: Cusco



Coordinate: 13° 9' 41" S, 71° 35' 28" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: coordinates are midpoints of nine values stated in the text
elevation 1500 to 3400 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "montane cloud forest"

Methods
Life forms: ground beetles

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: no design,pitfall traps,hand capture

Sample size: 1924 individuals

Years: 2007, 2008

Nets or traps: 60

Sampling comments: "carabid beetles were collected passively (via pitfall traps) and actively (via hand searches)... two clusters of traps were placed at least 10 meters apart, with six traps per cluster for a total of 12 traps per site. Collections were conducted monthly from September 2007 to July 2008"

Metadata
Sample number: 1553

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-05-16 17:10:19

Modified: 2015-05-16 07:10:19

Abundance distribution
77 species
23 singletons
total count 1924
geometric series index: 137.6
Fisher's α: 16.062
geometric series k: 0.9253
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8928
Shannon's H: 2.7759
Good's u: 0.9881
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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