La Selva Biological Station (new cacao)
Basic information
Sample name: La Selva Biological Station (new cacao)

Reference: J. T. Heinen. 1992. Comparisons of the leaf litter herpetofauna in abandoned cacao plantations and primary rain forest in Costa Rica: some implications for faunal restoration. Biotropica 24(3):431-439 [ER 183]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica

State: Heredia


Coordinate: 10° 25' 19" N, 84° 0' 54" W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Wikipedia page

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: plantation

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.0

MAP: 4260.0

Habitat comments: "cacao plantation abandoned 5 years previously"
climate data based on Kennedy and Horn (2008)

Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,frogs,salamanders

Sites: 25

Site area: 0.062

Sampling methods: quadrat,hand capture

Sample size: 240 individuals

Years: 1990

Sampling comments: 25 5 x 5 m plots

Metadata
Sample number: 397

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-14 15:11:45

Modified: 2014-04-26 01:21:02

Abundance distribution
17 species
6 singletons
total count 240
geometric series index: 34.7
Fisher's α: 4.179
geometric series k: 0.7370
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6484
Shannon's H: 1.5387
Good's u: 0.9751
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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