Beetles {KnowBR}R Documentation

Individual counts of species of beetles

Description

This database includes 15,142 records belonging to 54 Iberian species of the Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) previously compiled in the so called BANDASCA database (Lobo & Martín-Piera, 2002) also freely available in GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/). Individual counts, longitude and latitude of species occurrences of the family Scarabaeidae in the Iberian Peninsula are provided.

Usage

data(Beetles)

Format

A matrix with four columns: species, longitude, latitude and individual counts.

References

Lobo, J.M. & Martín-Piera, F. 2002. Searching for a predictive model for Iberian dung beetle species richness based on spatial and environmental variables. Conservation Biology 16: 158-173.


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