Cumanâ
Basic information
Sample name: Cumanâ
Reference: A. Tarroux, R. McNeil, and P. Legendre. 2003. Influence of rainfall on the composition of a tropical avian assemblage in northeastern Venezuela. Ecotropica 9:15-31 [ER 804]
Geography
Country: Venezuela
State: Sucre
Coordinate: 10° 25' N, 64° 11' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "near the city of Cumanâ... elevation less than 100 m"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 27.2
CMT: 25.5
MAP: 436.0
Habitat comments: "a seasonal semi-arid climate" with a "dry season from November to April... the vegetation cover [a tropical thorn woodland] was highly disturbed following the recent development of Cumanâ's outlying districts in the 1980s and 90s" but sampling predated this interval
climate data based on station 80420 (Cumanâ)
climate data based on station 80420 (Cumanâ)
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: mist nets
Sample size: 3281 individuals
Years: 1965 - 1967
Days: 88
Nets or traps: 9
Net or trap nights: 792
Sampling comments: sampled was during "two consecutive days every two or three weeks, using eight to ten mist-nets simultaneously (3x12 m, 4 shelves, 36-mm mesh)" and was for a "total of 9842 mist-net-hours" over "44 sessions"
Metadata
Sample number: 1151
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-09-04 09:45:54
Modified: 2014-09-03 23:45:54
Abundance distribution
66 species
9 singletons
total count 3281
extrapolated richness: 85.1
Fisher's α: 11.703
geometric series k: 0.9057
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9347
Shannon's H: 3.2785
Good's u: 0.9973
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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