San Vito de Coto Brus
Basic information
Sample name: San Vito de Coto Brus
Reference: G. Santos-Barrera, J. Pacheco, F. Mendoza-Quijano, F. Bolaños, G. Châves, G. D. Daily, P. R. Ehrlich, and G. Ceballos. 2008. Diversity, natural history and conservation of amphibians and reptiles from the San Vito Region, southwestern Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 56(2):755-778 [ER 265]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
Coordinate: 8° 47' 4" N, 82° 57' 9" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: scattered sites from within a 20 km radius of Las Cruces Biological Station and the Wilson Botanical Garden (both at the stated coordinate)
elevation range 1100 to 1500 m
elevation range 1100 to 1500 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: disturbed forest
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: grazing
MAT: 21.0
MAP: 3500.0
Habitat comments: originally "montane and premontane cloud forests," and now "mountain forest fragments, pastures, coffee plantations, and other disturbed areas"
climate data based on Celentano et al. (2010, Biotropica)
climate data based on Celentano et al. (2010, Biotropica)
Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,caecilians,frogs,salamanders
Sampling methods: timed,drift fences,funnel traps,pitfall traps,visual
Sample size: 1449 individuals
Years: 2002 - 2004
Sampling comments: visual encounter surveys plus drift fence/pitfall trap/funnel trap arrays
Metadata
Sample number: 537
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-22 16:34:57
Modified: 2014-07-13 07:20:52
Abundance distribution
65 species
20 singletons
total count 1449
geometric series index: 117.2
Fisher's α: 13.976
geometric series k: 0.9111
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8563
Shannon's H: 2.5830
Good's u: 0.9862
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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