La Casa
Basic information
Sample name: La Casa
Sample aka: Merida

Reference: J. B. Bowles, P. D. Heideman, and K. R. Erickson. 1990. Observations on six species of free-tailed bats (Molossidae) from Yucatan, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 35(2):151-157 [ER 558]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Yucatan

Coordinate: 20° 58' N, 89° 37' W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "a large, clay-tiled, suburban dwelling used by Central College"
coordinate based on Merida
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Climate and habitat
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: inhabited area
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 29.2
CMT: 23.5
MAP: 1048.0
Habitat comments: climate data based on station 76644 (Merida)
presumably deciduous forest based on climate, mentions of "thornforest, " and site descriptions of Birney et al. (1974)
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sampling methods: no design, mist nets
Sample size: 336
Sampling comments: no information on collecting effort
Metadata
Sample: 926
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-05-17 13:30:09
Modified: 2020-01-14 16:28:01
Abundance distribution
10 species
4 singletons
total count 336
standardised richness: 4.7
Fisher's α: 1.937
geometric series k: 0.5702
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6886
Shannon's H: 1.4009
Good's u: 0.9881
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