Optimising Bait for Pitfall Trapping of Amazonian Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 8; p. e73147
• Main Authors: Marsh, Charles J., Louzada, Julio, Beiroz, Wallace, Ewers, Robert M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 30.08.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Baits; Beetles; Biodiversity; Brazil; Breeding; Coleoptera; Coleoptera - physiology; Communities; Dung; Ecological monitoring; Environmental studies; Eucalyptus; Feces - parasitology; Forests; Habitats; Hogs; Human performance; Humans; Mixes; Ordination; Pig manure; Sampling; Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae; Silphidae; Species Specificity; Studies; Suidae; Sus scrofa; Swine; United Kingdom > UK

The accurate sampling of communities is vital to any investigation of ecological processes and biodiversity. Dung beetles have emerged as a widely used focal taxon in environmental studies and can be sampled quickly and inexpensively using baited pitfalls. Although there is now a wealth of available...