Needle's Eye
Basic information
Sample name: Needle's Eye

Sample aka: Jack Mountain range

Reference: V. A. Cobb and J. A. Summerhill. 1996. A one-year study of the species diversity and relative abundance of snakes and lizards in the Jack Mountain region of Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Proceedings Arkansas Academy of Science 50:120-126 [ER 231]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Arkansas


Coordinate: 34° 22' N, 93° 10' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: about 5 km north of Bismarck (basis of coordinate) west of U.S. Highway 7

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.5

CMT: 5.1

MAP: 1265.0

Habitat comments: "oak-hickory-pine forest"
climate data based on station 72340 (North Little Rock Municipal Airport)

Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes

Sampling methods: drift fences,funnel traps,hand capture

Sample size: 235 individuals

Years: 1995

Sampling comments: combination of hand capture and drift fences + funnel traps
recaptures excluded from counts

Metadata
Sample number: 472

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-19 12:14:21

Modified: 2014-04-26 10:05:11

Abundance distribution
24 species
4 singletons
total count 235
geometric series index: 36.3
Fisher's α: 6.691
geometric series k: 0.8475
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8955
Shannon's H: 2.5970
Good's u: 0.9831
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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