Caobas Ejido (regrowth forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Caobas Ejido (regrowth forest)
Reference: V. H. Luja, S. Herrando-Pérez, D. Gonzâlez-Solís, and L. Luiselli. 2008. Secondary rain forests are not havens for reptile species in tropical Mexico. Biotropica 40(6):747-757 [ER 289]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Quintana Roo
Coordinate: 18° 26' 39" N, 89° 6' 15" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "in the municipality of Othon P. Blanco"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.0
MAP: 1200.0
Habitat comments: "medium- saturated semievergreen forest"
Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,turtles
Sites: 36
Site area: 16.2
Sampling methods: belt transect,visual
Sample size: 243 captures or sightings
Years: 2004
Sampling comments: 36 500 x 9 m transects
apparently all visual sightings and few or no hand captures
apparently all visual sightings and few or no hand captures
Metadata
Sample number: 585
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-26 20:28:44
Modified: 2014-03-26 09:28:44
Abundance distribution
16 species
6 singletons
total count 243
extrapolated richness: 31.3
Fisher's α: 3.844
geometric series k: 0.7352
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7486
Shannon's H: 1.7537
Good's u: 0.9753
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Current reference:
Huckleberry et al. 2001 (ER 3215)