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Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia

National Park is one of the oldest rainforests found in South-east Asia andit hasa very complex ecosystem. The objective of this study was to preparean inventory on beetle abundance and diversity at Kuala Kelapor National Park, Malaysia. Beetles were sample during pitfall traps, Malaise traps and li...

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Main Authors: M. Musthafa, Muneeb, Davindran Rajandram,, Fauziah Abdullah,
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Published: Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
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spelling my-ukm.journal.146572020-05-19T04:28:47Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14657/ Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia M. Musthafa, Muneeb Davindran Rajandram, Fauziah Abdullah, National Park is one of the oldest rainforests found in South-east Asia andit hasa very complex ecosystem. The objective of this study was to preparean inventory on beetle abundance and diversity at Kuala Kelapor National Park, Malaysia. Beetles were sample during pitfall traps, Malaise traps and light traps at five different trails in April 2015. This study successfully recorded709 individuals of beetles from 93 different species belonging to 26 different families. The most abundant species was Coccotrypes sp. 1, followed by Coccotrypes sp. 2 and Aetheomorpha sp. 1. The abundant beetle families were Curculionidae, Chrysomelidae and Scarabaeidae. Light traps and pitfall traps showed almost identical number of beetles collected, while Malaise traps recorded of107 individuals. Higher number of beetles were collected from Trail 3, followed by Trail 1 and base camp. The Shannon diversity index, Simpson diversity index and Fisher alpha diversity showed higher diversity values, which suggests that National Park accommodates a high diversity of beetles. Abundance is measured using Margalef index and Menhinick indices, showed values of 13.88 and 3.47, respectively. This information could be used as an initial step to analyze the potential use of beetles as a bioindicator group in Malaysia and climate change studies. Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14657/1/32565-116259-1-PB.pdf M. Musthafa, Muneeb and Davindran Rajandram, and Fauziah Abdullah, (2019) Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia. Serangga, 24 (2). pp. 198-215. ISSN 1394-5130 http://ejournals.ukm.my/serangga/issue/view/1237/showToc
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description National Park is one of the oldest rainforests found in South-east Asia andit hasa very complex ecosystem. The objective of this study was to preparean inventory on beetle abundance and diversity at Kuala Kelapor National Park, Malaysia. Beetles were sample during pitfall traps, Malaise traps and light traps at five different trails in April 2015. This study successfully recorded709 individuals of beetles from 93 different species belonging to 26 different families. The most abundant species was Coccotrypes sp. 1, followed by Coccotrypes sp. 2 and Aetheomorpha sp. 1. The abundant beetle families were Curculionidae, Chrysomelidae and Scarabaeidae. Light traps and pitfall traps showed almost identical number of beetles collected, while Malaise traps recorded of107 individuals. Higher number of beetles were collected from Trail 3, followed by Trail 1 and base camp. The Shannon diversity index, Simpson diversity index and Fisher alpha diversity showed higher diversity values, which suggests that National Park accommodates a high diversity of beetles. Abundance is measured using Margalef index and Menhinick indices, showed values of 13.88 and 3.47, respectively. This information could be used as an initial step to analyze the potential use of beetles as a bioindicator group in Malaysia and climate change studies.
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author M. Musthafa, Muneeb
Davindran Rajandram,
Fauziah Abdullah,
spellingShingle M. Musthafa, Muneeb
Davindran Rajandram,
Fauziah Abdullah,
Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia
author_facet M. Musthafa, Muneeb
Davindran Rajandram,
Fauziah Abdullah,
author_sort M. Musthafa, Muneeb
title Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia
title_short Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia
title_full Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia
title_fullStr Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Diversity and abundance of beetle at Kuala Kelapor, National Park, Malaysia
title_sort diversity and abundance of beetle at kuala kelapor, national park, malaysia
publisher Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2019
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14657/1/32565-116259-1-PB.pdf
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