Las Cuevas Research Station (San Pastor control plot)
Basic information
Sample name: Las Cuevas Research Station (San Pastor control plot)

Sample aka: Chiquibul National Park

Reference: O. T. Lewis. 2001. Effect of experimental selective logging on tropical butterflies. Conservation Biology 15(2):389-400 [ER 938]
Geography
Country: Belize



Coordinate: 16° 44' N, 88° 59' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "close to the centre of the 170,000-ha Chiquibul National Park"
coordinate based onLas Cuevas Research Station
elevation 530 to 560 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 23.9

MAP: 1560.0

Habitat comments: "deciduous seasonal forest and deciduous/semi-evergreen seasonal forest" that has historically "been subject to low-intensity selective logging" and "repeated hurricane damage and associated fires"
climate data are for the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve and are from Meave and Kellman (1994, J Biogeogr)

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: baited

Sample size: 314 individuals

Years: 1997, 1998

Days: 87

Sampling comments: "Van Someren-Rydon traps baited with mashed, over-ripe bananas" with either one or four traps placed in the plot at a time (number of trapping days using each amount is unclear)

Metadata
Sample number: 1414

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-27 14:12:13

Modified: 2016-12-13 08:47:48

Abundance distribution
38 species
11 singletons
total count 314
geometric series index: 68.0
Fisher's α: 11.314
geometric series k: 0.8978
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9119
Shannon's H: 2.8938
Good's u: 0.9651
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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