Instituto de Biología Experimental (dry season)
Basic information
Sample name: Instituto de Biología Experimental (dry season)

Reference: C. Sainz-Borgo. 2016. Diet composition of birds associated to an urban forest patch in northern Venezuela. Interciencia 41(2):119-126 [ER 2762]
Geography
Country: Venezuela


Coordinate: 10° 31' N, 66° 54' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: coordinate given as "10º30'36" - 66º53' 92"W

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.0

CMT: 19.0

MAP: 750.0

Habitat comments: "a 2ha patch of semi-deciduous, seasonal, premontane forest... The vegetation is secondary"
precipitation ranges from "500 to 1000mm per year and an annual temperature between 19 and 27ºC" (presumably meaning monthly means)

Methods
Life forms: birds

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 98 captures or sightings

Years: 2013, 2014

Days: 10

Seasons: dry

Nets or traps: 8

Net or trap nights: 80

Sampling comments: "The study covered the end of the 2013 wet season (September-October), the following dry season (December 2013-April 2014) and the beginning of the 2014 wet season (May-July)... Eight mist nets (12x2.8, 36mm mesh) were... placed twice a month from September 2013 to July 2014. The mist nets were opened from 6:30 to 15:30"
total dry season sampling effort is therefore 2 days x 5 months = 10 days
counts are of captures

Metadata
Sample number: 2954

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2018-05-25 19:51:12

Modified: 2018-05-25 09:51:12

Abundance distribution
25 species
7 singletons
total count 98
geometric series index: 49.2
Fisher's α: 10.837
geometric series k: 0.8909
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9238
Shannon's H: 2.8672
Good's u: 0.9298
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Columbina talpacoti26.8 g granivore
Amazilia tobaci2 nectarivore-insectivore
Picumnus squamulatus710.2 g insectivore
Galbula ruficauda226.5 g insectivore
Thamnophilus doliatus25.1 g insectivore
Formicivora grisea52.2 g insectivore
Cranioleuca subcristata114.7 g insectivore
Campylorhamphus trochilirostris340.8 g insectivore
Atalotriccus pilaris16 insectivore
Cnemotriccus fuscatus113.6 g insectivore
Elaenia flavogaster724.8 g insectivore-frugivore
Pitangus sulphuratus14.2 g frugivore-insectivore
Camptostoma obsoletum18.1 g frugivore-insectivore
Hylophilus flavipes13.3 g frugivore
Cychlaris gujanensis1 frugivore
Thryophilus rufalbus2 insectivore
Troglodytes aedon51.8 g insectivore
Ramphocaenus melanurus59.7 g frugivore-insectivore
Thraupis episcopus235.0 g insectivore-frugivore
Tiaris 'bicolor'3
Coereba flaveola131.3 g frugivore-insectivore
Saltator coerulescens554.9 g insectivore-frugivore
Saltator striatipectus439.0 g insectivore
Euphonia trinitatis111.0 g frugivore
Turdus nudigenis663.9 g frugivore-insectivore