Tularosa Valley
Basic information
Sample name: Tularosa Valley

Reference: E. E. Jorgensen and S. Demarais. 1998. Herpetofauna associated with arroyos and uplands in foothills of the Chihuahuan Desert. Southwestern Naturalist 43(4):441-448 [ER 217]
Geography
Country: United States

State: New Mexico



Coordinate: 32° 41' N, 106° 32' W
Geography comments: coordinate based on San Andres National Wildlife Refuge
elevation 1255 to 1585 m

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.2

CMT: 7.2

MAP: 249.0

Habitat comments: "arroyos and uplands"
climate data based on station 72270 (El Paso International Airport)

Methods
Life forms: lizards

Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps

Sample size: 650 individuals

Years: 1993, 1994

Sampling comments: drift fence arrays with pitfall traps in eight arroyo-upland pairs

Metadata
Sample number: 450

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-17 13:27:27

Modified: 2014-04-26 10:47:01

Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 650
geometric series index: 9.3
Fisher's α: 1.478
geometric series k: 0.7096
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7445
Shannon's H: 1.6595
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Aspidoscelis exsanguis18
"Cnemidophorus exsanguis"
Aspidoscelis inornatus78
"Cnemidophorus inornatus"
Aspidoscelis marmoratus191
"Cnemidophorus marmoratus"
Aspidoscelis neomexicanus18
"Cnemidophorus neomexicanus"
Cophosaurus texanus21
Phrynosoma modestum21
Scaphiopus couchii16
Sceloporus undulatus38
Uta stansburiana249