Estación Científica Las Joyas
Basic information
Sample name: Estación Científica Las Joyas

Sample aka: Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlân

Reference: M. Aranda, F. Botello, and L. López-de Buen. 2012. Diversidad y datos reproductivos de mamíferos medianos y grandes en el bosque mesófilo de montaña de la Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlân, Jalisco-Colima, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 83(3):778-784 [ER 1723]
Geography
Country: Mexico

State: Jalisco



Coordinate: 19° 35' 6" N, 104° 15' 50" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: the reserve per se is in the south of Jalisco but ranges in Colima; exact coordinates are given for the two stations
altitude of the two stations was 2040 and 2070 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 14.6

MAP: 1610.0

Habitat comments: about 40% of the station is covered by "bosque mesófilo de montaña" and the rest by tropical deciduous, semi-deciduous, pine, oak, and fir forest
stated MAP 600 to 1700 mm (not exactly useable data)
climate data are for the Laboratorio Natural Las Joyas in the Sierra de Manantlân Biosphere Reserve and are from Lara and Ornelas (2001, Oecologia)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Site area: 1245

Sampling methods: no design,automatic cameras

Sample size: 372 captures or sightings

Years: 2008, 2009

Net or trap nights: 1156

Camera type: digital

Cameras paired: no

Sampling comments: digital cameras with infrared passive sensors (Wildview, Cudde Back and Stealth Cam); cameras were active for 19 months from February 2008 to August 2009, with one or two cameras active at any given time in each station
site area is the area of the station

Metadata
Sample number: 1920

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-01-13 20:16:21

Modified: 2016-12-14 09:32:25

Abundance distribution
17 species
3 singletons
total count 372
geometric series index: 24.1
Fisher's α: 3.674
geometric series k: 0.7399
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7883
Shannon's H: 1.9411
Good's u: 0.9919
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Didelphis virginiana102.2 kg insectivore-carnivore
Dasypus novemcinctus14.4 kg invertivore
Sylvilagus floridanus1011.1 kg herbivore
Canis latrans312 kg carnivore-insectivore
Urocyon cinereoargenteus34.1 kg frugivore-carnivore
Herpailurus yagouaroundi15.4 kg carnivore
"Puma yagouaroundi"
Leopardus pardalis118.4 kg carnivore
Leopardus wiedii52.6 kg carnivore
Puma concolor5049 kg carnivore
Panthera onca1365 kg carnivore
Conepatus leuconotus3
Mephitis macroura41.0 kg
Nasua narica104.6 kg frugivore-invertivore
Procyon lotor15.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Odocoileus virginianus12475 kg herbivore
Dicotyles tajacu2221 kg
"Pecari tajacu"
Sciurus colliaei10