Cofre de Perote (site 1)
Basic information
Sample name: Cofre de Perote (site 1)

Reference: G. Williams-Linera, M. Toledo-Garibaldi, and C. G. Hernândez. 2013. How heterogeneous are the cloud forest communities in the mountains of central Veracruz, Mexico?. Plant Ecology 214:685-701 [ER 2095]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Veracruz


Coordinate: 19° 30' N, 96° 56' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the Eastern slopes of the Cofre de Perote, a shield volcano"

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 18.7

MAP: 1671.0

Habitat comments: "tropical montane cloud forest... no signs of heavy disturbance, except minor wood extraction" but "surrounded by land use types common to the region including pastures, crops, coffee plantations, commercial tree plantations, and secondary vegetation"
climate data were extracted by the authors from WorldClim

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 10

Site area: 0.1

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 107 individuals

Size min: 5

Sampling comments: "ten 10 x 10m plots"
basal area is illustrated in Fig. 2 but no actual numbers are given anywhere

Metadata
Sample number: 2041

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-06-08 20:17:27

Modified: 2016-06-08 10:17:27

Abundance distribution
14 species
3 singletons
total count 107
extrapolated richness: 22.9
Fisher's α: 4.304
geometric series k: 0.7591
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8204
Shannon's H: 2.0833
Good's u: 0.9723
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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