Dung beetle abundance data from a before-and-after El Niño experiment in the Brazilian Amazon

This data set includes longitudinal abundance of dung beetles at dung-baited pitfall traps, recorded in 2010, 2016 and 2017 (around six years before, six months after and 18 months after the 2015-16 El Niño event, respectively) in the Brazilian Amazon region.

Dung beetles were collected during the collaborative projects AFIRE (Assessing ENSO-induced Fire Impacts in tropical Rainforest Ecosystems) and ECOFOR (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic Forests), which are part of the NERC Human-Modified Tropical Forest (HTMF) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/799db965-3ce7-4e9b-8590-de6a8624d652

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Metadata Language: English (en)

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-01-09

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/799db965-3ce7-4e9b-8590-de6a8624d652

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/799db965-3ce7-4e9b-8590-de6a8624d652

Other citation details: França, F.M., Oliveira, V.H., Louzada, J.N.C., Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z., Ferreira, J.N, Berenguer, E., Gardner, T., Lees, A., Barlow, J. (2019). Dung beetle abundance data from a before-and-after El Niño experiment in the Brazilian Amazon. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/799db965-3ce7-4e9b-8590-de6a8624d652

Embrapa Amazônia Oriental - Dr. Filipe França

Embrapa Amazônia Oriental - França, F.M.

Setor de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras - Oliveira, V.H.

Setor de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras - Louzada, J.N.C.

Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z.

Embrapa Amazônia Oriental - Ferreira, J.N

University of Oxford - Berenguer, E.

Stockholm Environment Institute - Gardner, T.

Manchester Metropolitan University - Lees, A.

Lancaster University - Barlow, J.

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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

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Brazil
Pará

Keywords

drought
Dung beetles
Amazonia
El Niño
selective logging
fires
Human-modified tropical forest (HMTF)
forest disturbance

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: França, F.M., Oliveira, V.H., Louzada, J.N.C., Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z., Ferreira, J.N, Berenguer, E., Gardner, T., Lees, A., Barlow, J. (2019). Dung beetle abundance data from a before-and-after El Niño experiment in the Brazilian Amazon. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/799db965-3ce7-4e9b-8590-de6a8624d652

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2010-04-01

End date: 2017-04-29

Reference system identifier: UTM zone 21M

Reference system identifier: UTM zone 22M

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Between April and June 2010, dung beetles were sampled across all 381 study plots (total of 3429 pitfall traps set across all study plots). Post-El Niño beetle surveys happened in July 2016 and between March and April 2017 within a subset of 36 forest plots (from those 381 previously established) in the Santarém region (333 pitfall traps for each year). These plots were distributed along a gradient of previous forest degradation, including undisturbed forests (n = 10), logged-forests (n = 10), logged-and-burned forests (n = 10) and secondary forests (n = 6). Half of these forest plots were fire-affected during the 2015-16 El Niño, while the other plots suffered only with the drought effects. Forest disturbance classes were based on analysis of canopy disturbance in time series satellite images (1988 to 2010) and previous field assessments of fire scars, and logging/charcoal debris. Dung beetles were sampled using pitfall traps baited with 50 g of dung (80% pig and 20% human) and half filled with a killing solution (5% detergent and 2% salt). Traps were distributed at the corners of a 3-m equilateral triangle, at three sampling points (0, 150 and 300 m) of a 300-m transect; and were left in the field for 48 h before inspection. Beetle surveys in 2016 and 2017 happened following exactly the same methods established in 2010.

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