Grassland near Santa Maria
Basic information
Sample name: Grassland near Santa Maria

Reference: G. R. Winck, T. G. dos Santos, and S. Z. Cechin. 2007. Snake assemblage in a disturbed grassland environment in Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil: population fluctuations of Liophis poecilogyrus and Pseudablabes agassizii. Acta Zoologica Fennici 44:321-332 [ER 177]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Rio Grande do Sul


Coordinate: 29° 44' S, 53° 45' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: coordinate given in text

Environment
Habitat: temperate savanna

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture,grazing

WMT: 19.2

CMT: 17.9

MAP: 1675.0

Habitat comments: grassland used for cattle breeding plus corn and soybean cultivation
MAP stated in text as "1500 to 1750 mm"; CMT and WMT based on Maragno and Cechin (2009, Iheringia)

Methods
Life forms: snakes

Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 272 individuals

Years: 2001 - 2004

Sampling comments: pitfall traps with drift fences

Metadata
Sample number: 390

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-14 13:28:07

Modified: 2015-07-07 06:58:08

Abundance distribution
20 species
5 singletons
total count 272
geometric series index: 31.9
Fisher's α: 4.976
geometric series k: 0.7946
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8607
Shannon's H: 2.3258
Good's u: 0.9817
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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