Aldea el Rancho
Basic information
Sample name: Aldea el Rancho
Reference: J. O. Matson, N. Ordóñez-Garza, W. Bulmer, and R. P. Eckerlin. 2012. Small mammal communities in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Mastozoología Neotropical 19(1):71-84 [ER 927]
Geography
Country: Guatemala
State: Huehuetenango
Coordinate: 15° 29' 22" N, 91° 33' 16" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "6.5 km SE Todos Santos Cuchumatân, Aldea el Rancho"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical coniferous forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 19.7
CMT: 16.1
MAP: 982.0
Habitat comments: "coniferous cloud forest composed of several species of conifers"
climate data are for Comitan de Dominguez and are from Johnson et al. (2015, Mesoamerican Herpetology)
climate data are for Comitan de Dominguez and are from Johnson et al. (2015, Mesoamerican Herpetology)
Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals
Sampling methods: no design,pitfall traps,Sherman traps,snap traps
Sample size: 142 individuals
Years: 2004, 2005, 2008
Seasons: dry
Net or trap nights: 1786
Sampling comments: "In 2004/2005 we recorded 600 trap nights and 76 pitfall nights. In 2008 we recorded 863 trap nights and 247 pitfall nights"; trapping employed "Victor rat, Museum Special, Sherman collapsible live, and pitfall (1 liter) traps... set at 5 m to 10 m intervals in straight lines" (baiting not discussed)
Metadata
Sample number: 1400
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-02-26 09:53:11
Modified: 2015-12-01 02:56:07
Abundance distribution
8 species
1 singleton
total count 142
extrapolated richness: 10.9
Fisher's α: 1.834
geometric series k: 0.5719
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7560
Shannon's H: 1.5990
Good's u: 0.9931
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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