Altura
Basic information
Sample name: Altura
Reference: A. E. Jimenez, F. Vargas Herrera, M. Salman, and M. V. Herrero. 2000. Survey of small rodents and hematophagous flies in three sentinel farms in a Costa Rican vesicular stomatitis endemic region. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 916(1):453-463 [ER 900]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
Coordinate: 10° 9' 55" N, 84° 13' 24" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "in the folds of the Poâs volcano" (coordinate is within the town of Altura)
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: pasture
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.0
MAP: 4260.0
Habitat comments: a dairy farm in an area of "lower mountain rain forest"
climate data are for La Selva and are from Kennedy and Horn (2008)
climate data are for La Selva and are from Kennedy and Horn (2008)
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: baited,Sherman traps
Sample size: 257 individuals
Days: 36
Nets or traps: 100
Net or trap nights: 3600
Sampling comments: 100 Sherman traps "set once a month for three consecutive days on each farm during the 12 months of the study... bait consisted of a mixture of oats, peanut butter, and vanilla"
Metadata
Sample number: 1348
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-22 21:46:26
Modified: 2015-12-26 10:06:12
Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 257
geometric series index: 10.3
Fisher's α: 1.814
geometric series k: 0.6039
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7378
Shannon's H: 1.6540
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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