Northern Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (forest fragments)
Basic information
Sample name: Northern Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (forest fragments)
Reference: C. RodrÃguez-Mendoza and E. Pineda. 2010. Importance of riparian remnants for frog species diversity in a highly fragmented rainforest. Biology Letters 6:781-784 [ER 287]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Veracruz
Coordinate: 18° 35' N, 95° 5' W
Geography comments: altitude 10 to 190 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: biosphere reserve
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 25.0
MAP: 2700.0
Habitat comments: "originally tropical evergreen forest" that is now fragmented, but fragment sizes are unclear and presumably large (see reference 216)
MAT and MAP apply to the study year
MAT and MAP apply to the study year
Methods
Life forms: frogs
Sites: 3
Site area: 0.27
Sampling methods: belt transect,hand capture
Sample size: 504 individuals
Years: 2007, 2008
Sampling comments: three 180 x 5 m transects
Metadata
Sample number: 580
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-26 17:17:16
Modified: 2018-04-23 07:39:36
Abundance distribution
12 species
5 singletons
total count 504
geometric series index: 24.9
Fisher's α: 2.208
geometric series k: 0.5795
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3408
Shannon's H: 0.7737
Good's u: 0.9901
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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