Caobas Ejido (induced grassland)
Basic information
Sample name: Caobas Ejido (induced grassland)

Reference: V. H. Luja, S. Herrando-Pérez, D. Gonzâlez-SolĂ­s, and L. Luiselli. 2008. Secondary rain forests are not havens for reptile species in tropical Mexico. Biotropica 40(6):747-757 [ER 289]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Quintana Roo



Coordinate: 18° 26' 39" N, 89° 6' 15" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the municipality of Othon P. Blanco"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.0

MAP: 1200.0

Habitat comments: "medium-saturated semievergreen forest" but now "large tracts of grassland only punctuated by isolated trees" that were created as "cattle pastures"

Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes

Sites: 36

Site area: 16.2

Sampling methods: belt transect,visual

Sample size: 218 captures or sightings

Years: 2004

Sampling comments: 36 500 x 9 m transects
apparently all visual sightings and few or no hand captures

Metadata
Sample number: 586

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-26 20:32:11

Modified: 2014-03-26 09:32:11

Abundance distribution
17 species
7 singletons
total count 218
geometric series index: 37.9
Fisher's α: 4.312
geometric series k: 0.7629
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7744
Shannon's H: 1.8181
Good's u: 0.9681
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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