Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (pasture)
Basic information
Sample name: Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (pasture)
Reference: J. N. Urbina-Cardona, M. Olivares-Pérez, and V. H. Reynoso. 2006. Herpetofauna diversity and microenvironment correlates across a pasture-edge-interior ecotone in tropical rainforest fragments in the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve of Veracruz, Mexico. Biological Conservation 132:61-75 [ER 216]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Veracruz
Coordinate: 18° 32' N, 95° 6' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: coordinate given in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: pasture
Protection: biosphere reserve
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 27.0
WMT: 35.0
CMT: 13.0
MAP: 4964.0
Habitat comments: "tropical evergreen forest" that has been converted to pasture at the edge of large forest fragments
"marked dry season from March to May"
"marked dry season from March to May"
Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,frogs,salamanders
Sites: 42
Site area: 0.42
Sampling methods: belt transect,hand capture
Sample size: 260 individuals
Years: 2003, 2004
Sampling comments: 42 50 m long, 2 m wide transects
Metadata
Sample number: 447
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-17 13:00:50
Modified: 2015-02-23 22:31:18
Abundance distribution
23 species
8 singletons
total count 260
extrapolated richness: 43.0
Fisher's α: 6.089
geometric series k: 0.8035
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7503
Shannon's H: 2.0758
Good's u: 0.9693
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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