Abundance of 147 taxa of tropical arthropods

Arthropod communities were sampled weekly in the twelve permanent plots from August to November 2010 in French Guiana and between May and September 2011 in Peru, corresponding to drier periods in each region. We employed a multiple trapping method composed of two types of flight interception trap (FIT), the Malaise trap (MT) and the Windowpane trap (WT); and two types of attractive traps: the Fruit trap (FT) and the Automatic Light trap (ALT)