Sample name: El Castillo (primary forest)

Reference: J. Herrera-Vásquez, A. Zúñiga Saborío, and C. M. Porras Cruz. 2008. Butterflies diversity in a tropical rainforest gradient of Arenal, Costa Rica. Brenesia 70:61-64 [ER 2264]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.0

MAP: 1745.0

Habitat comments: "between the Tropical moist forest and premontane moist forest life zones"
climate data are for Peñas Blancas and are from Moya and Calvo-Alvarado (2012, Annals of Forest Science)

Life forms: butterflies

Sites: 1

Site length: 550.0

Site width: 15.0

Sampling methods: belt transect, butterfly nets

Sample size: 67 captures or sightings

Years: 2006, 2007

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The investigation was conducted... during August 2006 - January 2007... There were selected three consecutive transects of 550 m long and 15 m wide each. The first transect was placed in a primary forest zone, the second one in a border zone (Taking 75 m in and 75 out of the border middle line) and the third one was located in a grassland zone. Two samples were taken one month apart. Butterflies were collected using hand nets... The sampling effort was of eight hours per habitat for a total of 42 hours by sampling month. Specimens were identified using a single code and released in the same capture place, only the rare species (when necessary) were preserved"

Sample no: 2356

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-10-29 20:46:02

Modified: 2016-12-12 23:59:52