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We compared abundance, species richness, and capture efficiency with pitfall traps and mini-Winkler extractors to examine their use as complementary methods for sampling soil Coleoptera during dry (2010) and high water seasons (2011) in three areas, including inundated and non-inundated regions, in the Pantanal of Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil. We paired treatments with two 10 × 10 m plots in inundated and non-inundated locations that were repeated three times in each location for a total of 18 plots. In each plot, we used nine pitfall traps and collected 2 m2 of leaf litter and surface soil samples with mini-Winkler extractors. We collected a total of 4260 adult beetles comprising 36 families, 113 genera, and 505 species. Most were caught in pitfalls (69%) and the remainder in the mini-Winkler extractors (31%). Each method provided distinct information about the beetle community: 252 species were captured only in pitfall traps, 147 using only the mini-Winkler extractors, and these methods shared another 106 species. Pitfall and mini-Winkler contribute in different ways for the sampling of the soil beetle community, and so they should be considered complementary for a more thorough assessment of community diversity.
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Thanks to Germano H. Rosado-Neto, Ulrich Irmler, Fernando Zagury Vaz de Mello, Geane Brizzola dos Santos, and Wesley Oliveira Sousa for taxonomic identification. Our thanks also to the Pantanal Research Center (Centro de Pesquisa do Pantanal, CPP), National Institute of Wetland Science and Technology (Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Áreas Úmidas – INAU/MCT/CNPq), Programa de Apoio à Núcleos de Excelência (PRONEX/FAPEMAT - Processo 838265/2009) and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade - UFMT.
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Carneiro, A.C., Batistella, D.A., Battirola, L.D. et al. Pitfall Traps and Mini-Winkler Extractor as Complementary Methods to Sample Soil Coleoptera. Neotrop Entomol 45, 28–32 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-015-0335-0
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