Alta Tarahumara
Basic information
Sample name: Alta Tarahumara
Reference: L. A. Tarango, R. Valdez, P. J. Zwank, and M. Cardenas. 1997. Mexican spotted owl habitat characteristics in southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 42(2):132-136 [ER 54]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Chihuahua
Coordinate: 27° 45' N, 107° 38' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: JA: "in southwestern Chihuahua, in the Alta Tarahumara region of the Sierra Occidental," apparently in "the San Juanito-Creel region" (coordinate based on Creel)
elevation 2280 to 2490 m
elevation 2280 to 2490 m
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 17.4
CMT: 11.0
MAP: 705.0
Dry months: 8
Habitat comments: JA: "petran montane conifer forest"
climate data are for Creel and from Farias Martinez and Aranda Gutierrez (2008)
climate data are for Creel and from Farias Martinez and Aranda Gutierrez (2008)
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 7
Site area: 0.242
Sample size: 179 individuals
Years: 1992-1993
Size min: 10
Basal area: 29.2455
Sampling comments: JA: five 0.04 ha plots, one 0.022 ha plot, one 0.02 ha plot
Metadata
Sample number: 147
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-03-05 15:43:37
Modified: 2014-07-18 11:22:22
Abundance distribution
10 species
4 singletons
total count 179
extrapolated richness: 18.0
Fisher's α: 2.287
geometric series k: 0.6112
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7137
Shannon's H: 1.5611
Good's u: 0.9777
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Current reference:
Huckleberry et al. 2001 (ER 3215)