10.15470/pjxmep
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https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=dung_beetles
Dung beetles specimens along aridity gradients at the border of three deserts: Chihuahua (Mexico), Kalahari (South Africa) and Sahara (Morocco), 2013-2015.
Indradatta
deCastro
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Ayudante de investigación
ES
indradatta@wanadoo.fr
0000-0001-6558-5730
Cristina
Ronquillo
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Ayudante de Investigación
Madrid
ES
cristinaronquillo@mncn.csic.es
0000-0001-5945-5147
Cristina
Ronquillo
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Ayudante de investigación
Madrid
ES
cristinaronquillo@mncn.csic.es
0000-0001-5945-5147
curator
Indradatta
deCastro
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Ayudante de investigación
ES
indradatta@wanadoo.fr
0000-0001-6558-5730
author
Francisco
Sánchez-Piñero
Universidad de Granada
Profesor Titular
Granada
ES
principalInvestigator
Joaquín
Hortal
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Científico titular
Madrid
ES
principalInvestigator
Mercedes
París
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Conservadora
Madrid
ES
processor
2020-05-21
eng
The dataset comprises a subset of the information recorded in the thesis “Dung beetle traits: a conceptual, experimental and biogeographical approach”. It contains 2086 occurrences of Scarabaeidae species recorded from Mexico, Morocco and South Africa and 4 occurrences of Trogidae family from Morocco. Dung beetles specimens were surveyed along aridity gradients at the border of three deserts: Chihuahua (Mexico), Kalahari (South Africa) and Sahara (Morocco). The sampling campaigns took place before the rainy season (September 2013-14 Sahara, November 2014 Kalahari) and after the rainy season (April 2013-2014 Sahara, May 2014 Sahara and September 2015 Chihuahua). The National Spanish Museum of Sciences kept the specimens preserved at the 'Entomología' collection. Those from South Africa and Mexico were dried. A wing and elytra were extracted and pinned. Specimens from Morocco were preserved in alcohol.
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
Specimens from South Africa and Mexico were dried. A wing and elytra were extracted and pinned. Specimens from Morocco were preserved in alcohol.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
30 different locations were surveyed from 3 different countries. 1842 occurrences from Sahara desert Morocco, 48 from Chihuhua desert in Mexico and 200 from Kalahari desert in South Africa.
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180
90
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2013-04-10
2015-09-12
Occurrences described in this dataset pertain to Scarabaeidae family and comprise 50 different genus of dung beetles. 5 occurrences were identified to family level, 59 to genus level and 2022 to species level. This dataset also contains 4 records of Trogidae family identified to species level.
family
Scarabaeidae
order
Coleoptera
class
Insecta
unkown
Indradatta
deCastro
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Ayudante de investigación
ES
indradatta@wanadoo.fr
0000-0001-6558-5730
Mercedes
Paris
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Conservadora
Madrid
ES
mercedes-paris@mncn.csic.es
We surveyed 10 sampling sites along the Moroccan road N17 from the Sahara towards the Mediterranean, separated by an interval of around 40 km. Sampling and beetle collection were carried out under research permits Reference Numbers 01/2013 HCEFLCD/DLCDPN/DPRN/CFF and 01/2014 HCEFLCD/DLCDPN/DPRN/CFF issued by the Haut Commisariat aux Eaux et Forêts et à Lutte Contre la Désertification (Morocco). All sampling sites were placed at least 100m away from the road margin.
The study area comprises the border of three deserts: Chihuahua (Mexico), Kalahari (South Africa) and Sahara (Morocco). In each of the deserts a transect 400km long was designed to capture the variability of a severe aridity gradient from 300mm to 100mm of total annual rainfall. Thus, the driest areas had scarce vegetation (<5cm high) and very low density (<1 individual per 1m²) and the wettest areas had shruby to sparse savanna ecosystems (small trees of various species, including Acacia in the Kalahari) or low intensity agroecosystems (specially in the wet areas of the Sahara desert). There was presence of livestock along the transects of the three deserts varying from cattle in the wettest study areas to lots of sheep/goats and some donkeys in the driest study areas of the three deserts. Even some dromedary at the Sahara desert.
For more details on the Saharan study area see https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5210.
Dung beetles were sampled during four campaigns held in two consecutive years: two in the wet season (April 2013 and 2014) and two in the dry season (September 2013 and 2014). In each campaign we surveyed 10 sampling sites along the Moroccan road N17 from the Sahara towards the Mediterranean, separated by an interval of around 40 km. All sampling sites were placed at least 100m away from the road margin.
SCARPO - Desentrañando los determinantes geográficos y evolutivos de la diversidad de coleópteros coprógafos del Paleártico Occidental.
Joaquín
Hortal
principalInvestigator
Desentrañando los determinantes geográficos y evolutivos de la diversidad de coleópteros coprógafos del Paleártico Occidental.
"SCARPO - Desentrañando los determinantes geográficos y evolutivos de la diversidad de coleópteros coprógafos del Paleártico Occidental (CGL2011-29317), and the associated FPI grant BES-2012-054353, funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad".
2020-03-25T10:34:54.550+01:00
dataset
deCastro I (2020): Dung beetles specimens along aridity gradients at the border of three deserts: Chihuahua (Mexico), Kalahari (South Africa) and Sahara (Morocco), 2013-2015.. v1.4. Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15470/pjxmep
DeCastro Arrazola, Indradatta. Dung beetle traits: a conceptual, experimental and biogeographical approach. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2018. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/54301]
deCastro-Arrazola I, Hortal J, Moretti M, Sánchez-Piñero F. 2018. Spatial and temporal variations of aridity shape dung beetle assemblages towards the Sahara desert. PeerJ 6:e5210
MNCN
835bf26e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
Colección de entomología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
alcohol
dried
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