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Ant sampling: the importance of pitfall trap depth as a bias factor
Author(s) -
JiménezCarmona Francisco,
Carpintero Soledad,
ReyesLópez Joaquín Luís
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
entomologia experimentalis et applicata
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.765
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1570-7458
pISSN - 0013-8703
DOI - 10.1111/eea.12965
Subject(s) - pitfall trap , hymenoptera , trap (plumbing) , biology , sampling (signal processing) , ant , ecology , habitat , sampling bias , statistics , environmental science , sample size determination , mathematics , environmental engineering , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision
When sampling with pitfall traps, possible bias factors should be considered. In this study we compare traps of two depths. The results show that, on average, deeper traps captured more ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and higher numbers of workers, and that the relative abundances of the species were different depending on the depth of the trap, regardless of the type of habitat.