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
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "a large, clay-tiled, suburban dwelling used by Central College"
coordinate based on Merida

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Environment
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 captures or sightings

Sampling comments: no information on collecting effort

Metadata
Sample number: 926

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-05-17 13:30:09

Modified: 2020-01-14 05:28:01

Abundance distribution
10 species
4 singletons
total count 336
geometric series index: 18.8
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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