West of Caracarai
Basic information
Sample name: West of Caracarai

Reference: J. P. Caldwell and L. J. Vitt. 1999. Dietary asymmetry in leaf litter frogs and lizards in a transitional northern Amazonian rain forest. Oikos 84(3):383-397 [ER 160]
Geography
Country: Brazil

State: Roraima



Coordinate: 1° 45' S, 61° 34' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "approximately 8 km N, 49 km W of Caracari [sic] in forest adjacent to an unpaved road" (coordinate extrapolated from Caracarai)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.7

MAP: 2200.0

Habitat comments: "a mosaic of small farms bordering undisturbed [tropical lowland] forest"
climate data based on Leal et al. (2006, Ecoscience) and apply to a site at least 100 km to the southeast but in similar terrain

Methods
Life forms: lizards,frogs

Sampling methods: no design,hand capture

Sample size: 325 individuals

Sampling comments: sampling was "haphazard" but it seems that all individuals were sampled

Metadata
Sample number: 360

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-13 14:56:04

Modified: 2014-04-27 05:01:46

Abundance distribution
16 species
1 singleton
total count 325
geometric series index: 19.8
Fisher's α: 3.529
geometric series k: 0.7665
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8913
Shannon's H: 2.3808
Good's u: 0.9969
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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