Lacandona (riparian pasture)
Basic information
Sample name: Lacandona (riparian pasture)

Reference: E. de la Peña-Cuéllar, J. Benítez-Malvido, L. D. Avila-Cabadilla, M. Martínez-Ramos, and A. Estrada. 2015. Structure and diversity of phyllostomid bat assemblages on riparian corridors in a human-dominated tropical landscape. Ecology and Evolution 5(4):903-913 [ER 1195]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Chiapas


Coordinate: 16° 4' N, 90° 45' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: all three sites are shown as being immediately beyond the southeastern edge of the Biosphere Reserve Montes Azules spread across a distance of perhaps 30 km in the vicinity of La Casa del Morpho

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 24.0

MAP: 3000.0

Habitat comments: the general area's vegetation was "semideciduous and lowland tropical rain forests... only 36% of closed forest remains today" and sites are in "open pastures"
there is < 100 mm of rainfall a month from February to April

Methods
Life forms: bats

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 885 individuals

Years: 2011 - 2013

Days: 18

Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 5

Net or trap nights: 90

Sampling comments: there were three replicate sites and "Bat sampling was performed twice during the dry season (December to May) and two times during the wet season (June to November) for three consecutive years (2011, 2012, and 2013). Eighteen nights were sampled... Five nets (12 m long × 2.6 m high) were set at ground level and were opened at dusk for four consecutive hours"

Metadata
Sample number: 1730

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-08-16 16:54:35

Modified: 2015-08-16 06:54:35

Abundance distribution
21 species
4 singletons
total count 885
extrapolated richness: 29.8
Fisher's α: 3.861
geometric series k: 0.7500
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7986
Shannon's H: 1.9908
Good's u: 0.9955
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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