La Gamba (natural forest)
Basic information
Sample name: La Gamba (natural forest)
Sample aka: Piedras Blancas National Park
Reference: M. Wiemers and K. Fiedler. 2008. Butterfly diversity of the Piedras Blancas National Park and its vicinity - a preliminary assessment (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea). Stapfia 88:277-294 [ER 890]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica
State: Puntarenas
Coordinate: 8° 42' 30" N, 83° 11' 0" W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate based on La Gamba
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Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: grazing
MAT: 27.4
WMT: 31.5
CMT: 23.2
MAP: 5720.0
Habitat comments: six sites in ridge and riverine forest
climate data are for the Tropical Field Station La Gamba and are from Umana and Wanek (2010, Ecosystems)
climate data are for the Tropical Field Station La Gamba and are from Umana and Wanek (2010, Ecosystems)
Methods
Life forms: butterflies
Sampling methods: no design, visual
Sample size: 204
Years: 2006, 2007
Seasons: dry
Sampling comments: sampling in 2006 was at fixed sites and in 2007 was along transects
Metadata
Sample: 1334
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-22 08:15:26
Modified: 2016-12-13 19:51:46
Abundance distribution
74 species
40 singletons
total count 204
Fisher's α: 41.743
geometric series k: 0.9665
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9726
Shannon's H: 3.9116
Good's u: 0.8045
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