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Jan 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wet and dry forests of the Otway Ranges (SE. Australia):
88 two square metre leaf litter samples (all 2019).
Average of >1,000,000 beetles/hectare in leaf litter in the ten most abundant #beetle families.
Almost half are from one family: Staphylinidae.
These 10 families are (top left to bottom right)
Staphylinidae
Ptiliidae
Curculionidae
Carabidae
Leiodidae
Hydrophilidae
Silvanidae
Corylophidae
Zopheridae
Melandryidae
