San Vito de Coto Brus
Basic information
Sample name: San Vito de Coto Brus

Reference: G. Santos-Barrera, J. Pacheco, F. Mendoza-Quijano, F. Bolaños, G. Châves, G. D. Daily, P. R. Ehrlich, and G. Ceballos. 2008. Diversity, natural history and conservation of amphibians and reptiles from the San Vito Region, southwestern Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 56(2):755-778 [ER 265]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica


Coordinate: 8° 47' 4" N, 82° 57' 9" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: scattered sites from within a 20 km radius of Las Cruces Biological Station and the Wilson Botanical Garden (both at the stated coordinate)
elevation range 1100 to 1500 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 21.0

MAP: 3500.0

Habitat comments: originally "montane and premontane cloud forests," and now "mountain forest fragments, pastures, coffee plantations, and other disturbed areas"
climate data based on Celentano et al. (2010, Biotropica)

Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,caecilians,frogs,salamanders

Sampling methods: timed,drift fences,funnel traps,pitfall traps,visual

Sample size: 1449 individuals

Years: 2002 - 2004

Sampling comments: visual encounter surveys plus drift fence/pitfall trap/funnel trap arrays

Metadata
Sample number: 537

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-22 16:34:57

Modified: 2014-07-13 07:20:52

Abundance distribution
65 species
20 singletons
total count 1449
geometric series index: 117.2
Fisher's α: 13.976
geometric series k: 0.9111
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8563
Shannon's H: 2.5830
Good's u: 0.9862
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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