Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (pasture)
Basic information
Sample name: Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (pasture)

Reference: J. N. Urbina-Cardona, M. Olivares-Pérez, and V. H. Reynoso. 2006. Herpetofauna diversity and microenvironment correlates across a pasture-edge-interior ecotone in tropical rainforest fragments in the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve of Veracruz, Mexico. Biological Conservation 132:61-75 [ER 216]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Veracruz


Coordinate: 18° 32' N, 95° 6' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: coordinate given in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Protection: biosphere reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.0

WMT: 35.0

CMT: 13.0

MAP: 4964.0

Habitat comments: "tropical evergreen forest" that has been converted to pasture at the edge of large forest fragments
"marked dry season from March to May"

Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,frogs,salamanders

Sites: 42

Site area: 0.42

Sampling methods: belt transect,hand capture

Sample size: 260 individuals

Years: 2003, 2004

Sampling comments: 42 50 m long, 2 m wide transects

Metadata
Sample number: 447

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-17 13:00:50

Modified: 2015-02-23 22:31:18

Abundance distribution
23 species
8 singletons
total count 260
geometric series index: 43.0
Fisher's α: 6.089
geometric series k: 0.8035
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7503
Shannon's H: 2.0758
Good's u: 0.9693
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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