Trap Spacing and Transect Design for Dung Beetle Biodiversity Studies 1

By T. Larsen, A. Forsyth. 2005

369 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. T. Gardner
2. A. Lopera
3. S. Spector
4. M. I. Hernández
5. C. A. Peres
6. Jos Barlow
7. T. Larsen
8. A. Forsyth

In Ecology

1. Jos Barlow
2. C. A. Peres
3. T. Gardner
4. M. I. Hernández
5. A. Lopera
6. S. Spector
7. T. Larsen
8. A. Forsyth

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. A. Peres
2. Jos Barlow
3. T. Gardner
4. C. Kremen
5. N. Williams
6. M. I. Hernández
7. T. Larsen
8. S. Spector

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles (2007, methodology): “…beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) were sampled using pitfall traps (20 cm diameter, 15 cm depth) buried flush with the ground and baited with c. ~20 g of fresh human dung, the most effective bait for dung beetle studies in the neotropics (for a similar design see Larsen & Forsyth 2005).”
• Macro‐moth families differ in their attraction to light: implications for light‐trap monitoring programmes (2014, neutral): “Such a programme would be complementary to suggested standardised global sampling programmes for other ecologically important groups, such as butterflies (Basset et al., 2013), dung beetles (Larsen & Forsyth, 2005), and bees (Lebuhn et al., 2013).”
• Scarabaeine Dung Beetles (coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): An Invertebrate Focal Taxon for Biodiversity Research and Conservation (2006, background): “Dung beetles sampling methods have benefited from this trend, and a growing number of studies investigating the quantitative efficiencies of different collecting protocols have appeared in the literature or are in progress (Horgan 2005; Larsen and Forsyth 2005).”
• Extreme Trophic and Habitat Specialization by Peruvian Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) (2006, methodology): “Our primary sampling method was to place transects of baited pitfall traps (see Larsen and Forsyth 2005 for detailed methodology).”
• Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding. (2013, methodology): “We used standardized pitfall traps baited with human dung (Larsen & Forsyth 2005) in 2009 and 2011.”
• Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning. (2005, background): “To assess dung beetle community structure and diversity, we set human dung baited pitfall traps along linear transects with traps spaced 50 m apart (see Larsen & Forsyth 2005 for details).”
• Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function (2021, methodology): “Each transect included 20 baited pitfall traps (hereafter referred as ‘sampling units’; Figure S1b) placed 50 m from each other (Larsen & Forsyth, 2005; Figure S1b).”