Sao Luiz do Paraitinga (Plot 10)
Basic information
Sample name: Sao Luiz do Paraitinga (Plot 10)
Reference: D. B. Ribeiro, R. Batista, P. I. Prado, K. S. Brown, and A. V. L. Freitas. 2012. The importance of small scales to the fruit-feeding butterfly assemblages in a fragmented landscape. Biodiversity and Conservation 21:811-827 [ER 119]
Geography
Country: Brazil
State: Sao Paulo
Coordinate: -23.1° S, -45.2° W
Geography comments: Field work was carried out near the scarps of the Serra do Mar mountain range (p. 813)
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: fragment
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 20.2
WMT: 28.6
CMT: 9.5
MAP: 1340.0
Habitat comments: "The original vegetation of this area was dense humid forest. Over the past two centuries, forest fragmentation has drastically changed the landscape of the region. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, human activity in this landscape replaced native rain forest with ranching areas and small crop fields. Around 1760, massive coffee plantations were planted in this region, and deforestation rates increased. Defor- estation then accelerated with the decline of coffee plantations and the increase of dairy farming in the 1930s. Currently, most of the original vegetation is gone, and the remaining forest persists as small fragments surrounded by a matrix of crop fields, Eucalyptus plantations, ranching areas and abandoned pastures" (P. 813)
Methods
Life forms: butterflies
Site length: 30
Sampling methods: line transect,butterfly nets
Sample size: 741 captures or sightings
Years: 2004-2005
Metadata
Sample number: 284
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-04-09 14:29:09
Modified: 2015-02-23 02:32:01
Abundance distribution
45 species
9 singletons
total count 741
geometric series index: 69.1
Fisher's α: 10.548
geometric series k: 0.8981
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9227
Shannon's H: 2.9668
Good's u: 0.9879
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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