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Beetles: 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)

Arguments

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.