Seasonal turnover
Species number and abundance varied significantly between the four field campaigns (ANOVA, p<0.01) (Figure 1B). Patterns of species turnover among single traps between the sampling campaigns were not homogeneous for different localities. Some localities showed very little difference between all campaigns, some had strong differences between all, and in some cases only one or two differed in species composition (Figure 6). For pooled data for a single locality and field campaign, seasonal species turnover of localities varied between 19–61% (Table S5). Kruskal-Wallis test for individual localities showed that L1, L2, L3, L9 had significant seasonal species turnover, while other localities did not show any significant species turnover between the seasons (Table S5). Among our four field campaigns, February (2019, I) and December (2020, II) campaigns showed the highest faunal similarity (i.e., 49.2%) and lowest similarity (17%) was found between campaigns of October (2019II) and June (2020I) (Table S6). Faunal similarity among campaigns varied for lineage and body size partitioned assemblage data, which showed higher similarity for Melolonthinae and Sericini as well as small-sized specimens compared to the complete assemblage, in all other less faunal similarity compared to the latter (Table S6).