La Selva Biological Station (intact forest)
Basic information
Sample name: La Selva Biological Station (intact forest)
Reference: D. J. Levey. 1988. Tropical wet forest treefall gaps and distributions of understory birds and plants. Ecology 69(4):1076-1089 [ER 724]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
Coordinate: 10° 26' N, 83° 59' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.0
MAP: 4260.0
Habitat comments: "Tropical Wet Forest and Tropical Premontane Wet Forest, warm transition"
climate data based on Kennedy and Horn (2008)
climate data based on Kennedy and Horn (2008)
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sites: 13
Sampling methods: mist nets
Sample size: 637 individuals
Years: 1982, 1983
Days: 48
Nets or traps: 25
Net or trap nights: 1200
Sampling comments: 25 2.6 x 12 m nets in "13 intact forest sites" that were sampled for "4 d each month over a 12-mo period"
Metadata
Sample number: 1048
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-08-17 17:24:58
Modified: 2014-08-17 07:31:53
Abundance distribution
60 species
15 singletons
total count 637
geometric series index: 101.7
Fisher's α: 16.241
geometric series k: 0.9213
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9102
Shannon's H: 3.1028
Good's u: 0.9765
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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