El Rancho (rodents)
Basic information
Sample name: El Rancho (rodents)

Reference: F. Barragán, C. Lorenzo, A. Morón, M. A. Briones-Salas, and S. López. 2010. Bat and rodent diversity in a fragmented landscape on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Tropical Conservation Science 3(1):1-16 [ER 394]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Oaxaca

Coordinate: 16° 24' N, 95° 38' W
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Geography comments: altitude 50 to 150 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.6

MAP: 932.0

Habitat comments: "The climate is warm, subhumid, with rainfall between June and October, and a dry season from March through May"
this is the least disturbed (26% pasture) of four study areas, but also includes secondary vegetation (27%)
MAT and MAP given in text

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: quadrat, Sherman traps

Sample size: 57 individuals

Years: 2006

Days: 6

Nets or traps: 100

Net or trap nights: 600

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: capture-recapture protocol with rodents being "captured with 100 ShermanTM live traps placed in a radial formation starting at the center of each landscape unit and left in the field for three consecutive nights" during each of two periods

Metadata
Sample no: 1364

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-24 10:16:40

Modified: 2016-06-19 02:58:07

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
2 species
0 singleton
total count 57
geometric series index: not computable
Fisher's α: not computable
geometric series k: 1.0
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.115
Shannon's H: 0.2541
Good's u: 1
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