The Effect of Decreasing Temperature on Arthropod Diversity and Abundance in Horse Dung Decomposition Communities of Southeastern Massachusetts

Figure 3

Species accumulation curves for each of the five sites. From the 10,299 arthropods collected, the total number of species gathered was 76 and included a wide range of arthropods including beetles, flies, arachnids, and springtails. Further, the curves all displayed a similar steep slope before leveling out at their respective maximum number of species and arthropods collected site 1: 70 and 2176, site 2: 66 and 2011, site 3: 76 and 3028, site 4: 71 and 968, and site 5: 72 and 2116.