Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragment Project
Basic information
Sample name: Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragment Project
Reference: W. D. Allmon. 1991. A plot study of forest floor litter frogs, central Amazon, Brazil. Journal of Tropical Ecology 7(4):503-522 [ER 158]
Geography
Country: Brazil
State: Amazonas
Coordinate: 2° 25' S, 59° 50' W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: plots are on three adjacent fazendas "80 km north of Manaus" (coordinate based on sample 596)
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: fragment
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 26.7
MAP: 2186.0
Habitat comments: a majority of the sites are 100 ha in size or less (see Fig. 1)
climate data based on Andresen (2002) (see samples 621 and 622)
climate data based on Andresen (2002) (see samples 621 and 622)
Methods
Life forms: frogs
Sites: 255
Site area: 1.245
Sampling methods: quadrat, hand capture
Sample size: 528
Years: 1983, 1984
Sampling comments: 498 5 x 5 m plots
Metadata
Sample: 358
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-13 14:09:50
Modified: 2015-02-24 11:02:14
Abundance distribution
14 species
3 singletons
total count 528
extrapolated richness: 18.5
Fisher's α: 2.640
geometric series k: 0.6518
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7034
Shannon's H: 1.6051
Good's u: 0.9943
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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