La Gamba (secondary forest)
Basic information
Sample name: La Gamba (secondary forest)

Sample aka: Piedras Blancas National Park

Reference: M. Wiemers and K. Fiedler. 2008. Butterfly diversity of the Piedras Blancas National Park and its vicinity - a preliminary assessment (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea). Stapfia 88:277-294 [ER 890]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica

State: Puntarenas



Coordinate: 8° 42' 30" N, 83° 11' 0" W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on La Gamba

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 27.4

WMT: 31.5

CMT: 23.2

MAP: 5720.0

Habitat comments: four sites in secondary forest and two sites in "a (partly swampy) plantation of Gmelina arborea"
climate data are for the Tropical Field Station La Gamba and are from Umana and Wanek (2010, Ecosystems)

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: no design,visual

Sample size: 368 individuals

Years: 2006, 2007

Seasons: dry

Sampling comments: sampling in 2006 was at fixed sites and in 2007 was along transects

Metadata
Sample number: 1333

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-22 07:57:46

Modified: 2016-12-13 08:51:41

Abundance distribution
62 species
29 singletons
total count 368
geometric series index: 153.8
Fisher's α: 21.356
geometric series k: 0.9364
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9372
Shannon's H: 3.2709
Good's u: 0.9213
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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