Orange Walk Town
Basic information
Sample name: Orange Walk Town

Reference: R. W. Henderson and L. G. Hoevers. 1977. The seasonal incidence of snakes at a locality in northern Belize. Copeia 1977(2):349-355 [ER 186]
Geography
Country: Belize


Coordinate: 18° 4' 30" N, 88° 33' 30" W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Orange Walk Town

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 28.9

CMT: 24.4

MAP: 1195.0

Habitat comments: "originally deciduous seasonal broadleaf forest and marsh forest" but extensively cleared for sugar cane plantations and residential areas
climate data based on station 76750 (Chetumal)

Methods
Life forms: snakes

Sampling methods: hand capture

Sample size: 177 individuals

Years: 1967 - 1974

Metadata
Sample number: 402

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-14 15:59:26

Modified: 2014-04-27 03:16:47

Abundance distribution
22 species
4 singletons
total count 177
extrapolated richness: 34.9
Fisher's α: 6.621
geometric series k: 0.8410
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8971
Shannon's H: 2.5835
Good's u: 0.9777
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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