Chamela Biosphere Reserve (disturbed)
Basic information
Sample name: Chamela Biosphere Reserve (disturbed)
Reference: I. Suazo-Ortuño, J. Alvarado-Díaz, and M. Martínez-Ramos. 2008. Effects of conversion of dry tropical forest to agricultural mosaic on herpetofaunal assemblages. Conservation Biology 22(2):362-374 [ER 288]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Jalisco
Coordinate: 19° 30' N, 105° 3' W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
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Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: disturbed forest
Protection: biosphere reserve
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: agriculture, grazing, selective logging
MAT: 24.6
MAP: 788.0
Habitat comments: "tropical dry forest"
disturbance includes "subsistence cultivation, small pastures for cattle, and selective extraction of trees for firewood"
disturbance includes "subsistence cultivation, small pastures for cattle, and selective extraction of trees for firewood"
Methods
Life forms: lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs
Sites: 30
Site area: 3.000
Sampling methods: belt transect, hand capture
Sample size: 876
Sampling comments: ten 100 x 10 m plots each in three watersheds
all individuals were captured, marked, and released
all individuals were captured, marked, and released
Metadata
Sample: 583
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-26 17:51:14
Modified: 2015-07-07 16:59:02
Abundance distribution
48 species
15 singletons
total count 876
Fisher's α: 10.915
geometric series k: 0.8994
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9038
Shannon's H: 2.7299
Good's u: 0.9829
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