Lacandona (riparian pasture)
Basic information
Sample name: Lacandona (riparian pasture)
Reference: E. de la Peña-Cuéllar, J. Benítez-Malvido, L. D. Avila-Cabadilla, M. Martínez-Ramos, and A. Estrada. 2015. Structure and diversity of phyllostomid bat assemblages on riparian corridors in a human-dominated tropical landscape. Ecology and Evolution 5(4):903-913 [ER 1195]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Chiapas
Coordinate: 16° 4' N, 91° 45' W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: all three sites are shown as being immediately beyond the southeastern edge of the Biosphere Reserve Montes Azules spread across a distance of perhaps 30 km in the vicinity of La Casa del Morpho
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: pasture
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 24.0
MAP: 3000.0
Habitat comments: the general area's vegetation was "semideciduous and lowland tropical rain forests... only 36% of closed forest remains today" and sites are in "open pastures"
there is < 100 mm of rainfall a month from February to April
there is < 100 mm of rainfall a month from February to April
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sites: 3
Sampling methods: no design, mist nets
Sample size: 885 individuals
Years: 2011 - 2013
Days: 18
Seasons: dry, wet or monsoon
Nets or traps: 5
Net or trap nights: 90
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: there were three replicate sites and "Bat sampling was performed twice during the dry season (December to May) and two times during the wet season (June to November) for three consecutive years (2011, 2012, and 2013). Eighteen nights were sampled... Five nets (12 m long × 2.6 m high) were set at ground level and were opened at dusk for four consecutive hours"
Metadata
Sample no: 1730
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-08-16 16:54:35
Modified: 2015-08-16 06:54:35
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
21 species
4 singletons
total count 885
geometric series index: 29.8
Fisher's α: 3.861
geometric series k: 0.75
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7986
Shannon's H: 1.9908
Good's u: 0.9955
Register
| Carollia perspicillata (Seba's short-tailed bat) | 34 | 19.6 g |
| Carollia sowelli (Sowell's short-tailed bat) | 6 | 16.9 g |
| Desmodus rotundus (common vampire bat) | 8 | 33.5 g |
| Diphylla ecaudata | 1 | 30.7 g |
| Glossophaga soricina (Pallas's long-tongued bat) | 80 | 10.5 g |
| Mimon crenulatum | 7 | 14.4 g |
| Phyllostomus discolor (pale spear-nosed bat) | 1 | 40.3 g |
| Tonatia saurophila | 2 | 27.1 g |
| Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat) | 59 | 48.0 g |
| Artibeus lituratus (great fruit-eating bat) | 190 | 68.5 g |
| Artibeus phaeotis (pygmy fruit-eating bat) | 11 | |
| Artibeus watsoni (Thomas's fruit-eating bat) | 8 | |
| Centurio senex | 1 | 19.0 g |
| Chiroderma salvini (Salvin's big-eyed bat) | 3 | 28.2 g |
| Chiroderma villosum (hairy big-eyed bat) | 3 | 23.4 g |
| Platyrrhinus helleri (Heller's broad-nosed bat) | 47 | 19.4 g |
| Sturnira lilium (little yellow-shouldered bat) | 315 | 18.7 g |
| Sturnira ludovici (highland yellow-shouldered bat) | 1 | 25.0 g |
| Uroderma bilobatum (tent-making bat) | 92 | 18.1 g |
| Vampyressa thyone | 5 | 8.0 g |
| Vampyrodes caraccioli | 11 | 36.0 g |