Effect of pitfall trap depth on epigaeic beetle sampling (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Staphylinidae) in wet forested ecosites in Alberta, Canada

H. E. J. Hammond; D. Langor; Dustin J. Hartley

DOI:10.4039/tce.2018.34

Corpus ID: 92731182

Effect of pitfall trap depth on epigaeic beetle sampling (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Staphylinidae) in wet forested ecosites in Alberta, Canada

@article{Hammond2018EffectOP,
  title={Effect of pitfall trap depth on epigaeic beetle sampling (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Staphylinidae) in wet forested ecosites in Alberta, Canada},
  author={H. E. J. Hammond and D. Langor and Dustin J. Hartley},
  journal={The Canadian Entomologist},
  year={2018},
  volume={150},
  pages={813 - 820}
}

H. E. J. Hammond, D. Langor, Dustin J. Hartley

Published 2018

Biology

The Canadian Entomologist

Abstract The depth at which pitfall traps were sunk into the ground and the resulting catches of epigaeic Carabidae (Coleoptera) and Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) assemblages in subhygric to hydric ecosites with very deep organic soil layers was investigated in the upper foothills ecoregion of Alberta, Canada. Traps were installed at seven sites, with six surface traps (the pitfall trap lip <5 cm below soil surface) and six deep traps (the pitfall trap lip >20 cm below soil surface) at each site… CONTINUE READING

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