Cofre de Perote (site 3)
Basic information
Sample name: Cofre de Perote (site 3)

Reference: G. Williams-Linera, M. Toledo-Garibaldi, and C. G. Hernández. 2013. How heterogeneous are the cloud forest communities in the mountains of central Veracruz, Mexico?. Plant Ecology 214:685-701 [ER 2095]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Veracruz

Coordinate: 20° 31' 15" N, 97° 59' 27" W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "in the Eastern slopes of the Cofre de Perote, a shield volcano"

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Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 17.8

MAP: 1708.0

Habitat comments: "tropical montane cloud forest... no signs of heavy disturbance, except minor wood extraction" but "surrounded by land use types common to the region including pastures, crops, coffee plantations, commercial tree plantations, and secondary vegetation"
climate data were extracted by the authors from WorldClim

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 10

Site area: 0.1

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 95 individuals

Net or trap nights: 0

Size min: 5.0

Basal area status: not stated

Sampling comments: "ten 10 x 10m plots"
basal area is illustrated in Fig. 2 but no actual numbers are given anywhere

Metadata
Sample no: 2043

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-06-08 20:26:28

Modified: 2016-06-08 10:26:28

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
4 singletons
total count 95
geometric series index: 23.7
Fisher's α: 4.073
geometric series k: 0.7511
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8191
Shannon's H: 2.0175
Good's u: 0.9583
Register
Liquidambar styraciflua 14
Koanophyllon pittieri 1
Verbesina sp. 1
Carpinus tropicalis 31
Trema micrantha 1
Clethra macrophylla 12
Alchornea latifolia 1
Quercus xalapensis 6
Cinnamomum effusum 2
"Cinamommum effusum"
Miconia glaberrima 4
Myrsine coriacea 5
Turpinia insignis 15
Styrax glabrescens 2