Cofre de Perote (site 1)
Basic information
Sample name: Cofre de Perote (site 1)
Reference: G. Williams-Linera, M. Toledo-Garibaldi, and C. G. Hernández. 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: 20° 30' N, 97° 56' W
Latlng 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
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
Net or trap nights: 0
Size min: 5.0
Basal area status: not stated
Sampling comments: "ten 10 x 10m plots"
basal area is illustrated in Fig. 2 but no actual numbers are given anywhere
basal area is illustrated in Fig. 2 but no actual numbers are given anywhere
Metadata
Sample no: 2041
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-06-08 20:17:27
Modified: 2016-06-08 10:17:27
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
14 species
3 singletons
total count 107
geometric series index: 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
Register
| Saurauia pedunculata | 1 | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | 10 | |
| Ilex discolor tolucana | 3 | |
| Carpinus tropicalis | 36 | |
| Clethra macrophylla | 5 | |
| Quercus acutifolia | 2 | |
| Quercus corrugata | 1 | |
| Quercus germana | 13 | |
| Quercus sartorii | 4 | |
| Cinnamomum effusum | 5 | |
| "Cinamommum effusum" | ||
| Eugenia mexicana | 5 | |
| Eugenia xalapensis | 2 | |
| Turpinia insignis | 19 | |
| Tree indet. 5 | 1 | |