La Selva (primary forest control block)
Basic information
Sample name: La Selva (primary forest control block)
Reference: B. Folt and K. E. Reider. 2013. Leaf-litter herpetofaunal richness, abundance, and community assembly in mono-dominant plantations and primary forest of northeastern Costa Rica. Biodiversity and Conservation 22:2057-2070 [ER 932]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
Coordinate: 10.42° N, -84.02° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: elevation 30 to 135 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 25.8
MAP: 4000.0
Habitat comments: "within Holdridge’s Tropical Wet Forest life zone"
Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,frogs
Sampling methods: quadrat,visual
Sample size: 285 individuals
Years: 2010
Sampling comments: "diurnal visual encounter surveys... Transect samples were taken within 36 m 9 36 m subplots"
Metadata
Sample number: 1406
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-26 13:12:14
Modified: 2015-02-26 02:12:14
Abundance distribution
14 species
5 singletons
total count 285
extrapolated richness: 25.9
Fisher's α: 3.086
geometric series k: 0.6853
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6946
Shannon's H: 1.5631
Good's u: 0.9825
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Current reference:
Herzog et al. 2003 (ER 1261)