Sample name: Kitadan Valley

Reference: W. M. El Sayed and K. Nakamura. 2010. Abundance, diversity and distribution of the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in a satoyama valley in Kanazawa, Japan, with special reference to the body size and feeding categories. Far Eastern Entomologist 205:1-19 [ER 1037]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 14.8

WMT: 26.8

CMT: 3.5

MAP: 2545.0

Habitat comments: the original vegetation was "deciduous broad leaved trees predominated by two oak species, Quercus serrata and Q. variabilis, patches of plantations of Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica, and moso bamboo, Phyllosta- chys sp." and sites were located "on the banks of the terraced paddies (coded as PF), at the edges of oak forests (two sites, Fe A and Fe B) in wetland among artificial ponds (W) and in open grassland (OG), in an area of abandoned crop land where millet was cultivated in 2004 and 2005"

Life forms: ground beetles

Sites: 5

Sampling methods: line transect,pitfall traps

Sample size: 1961 individuals

Years: 2007, 2008

Nets or traps: 75

Sampling comments: "At each sampling site, 15 unbaited pitfall traps were installed as trapping tools and spaced about 1 m apart along a transect" and sampled "early May till late November"

Sample number: 1538

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-05-14 20:36:12

Modified: 2015-05-14 10:36:12