Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (interior)
Basic information
Sample name: Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (interior)
Reference: J. N. Urbina-Cardona, M. Olivares-Pérez, and V. H. Reynoso. 2006. Herpetofauna diversity and microenvironment correlates across a pasture-edge-interior ecotone in tropical rainforest fragments in the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve of Veracruz, Mexico. Biological Conservation 132:61-75 [ER 216]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Veracruz
Coordinate: 18° 32' N, 95° 6' W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: coordinate given in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: biosphere reserve
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 27.0
WMT: 35.0
CMT: 13.0
MAP: 4964.0
Habitat comments: "tropical evergreen forest" located in "Six fragments between 26 and 472 ha in size" of which most appear to be > 100 ha in area
"marked dry season from March to May"
"marked dry season from March to May"
Methods
Life forms: lizards, snakes, frogs, salamanders
Sites: 42
Site area: 0.420
Sampling methods: belt transect, hand capture
Sample size: 846
Years: 2003, 2004
Sampling comments: 42 50 m long, 2 m wide transects
Metadata
Sample: 449
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-17 13:11:58
Modified: 2015-02-24 09:30:34
Abundance distribution
35 species
8 singletons
total count 846
extrapolated richness: 47.2
Fisher's α: 7.365
geometric series k: 0.8330
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6185
Shannon's H: 1.6691
Good's u: 0.9906
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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