Serra da Capivara National Park
Basic information
Sample name: Serra da Capivara National Park
Reference: L. B. Q. Cavalcanti, T. B. Costa, G. R. Colli, G. C. Costa, F. G. R. França, D. O. Mesquita, C. N. S. Palmeira, N. Pelegrin, A. H. B. Soares, D. B. Tucker, and A. A. Garda. 2014. Herpetofauna of protected areas in the Caatinga II: Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil. Check List 10(1):18-27 [ER 246]
Geography
Country: Brazil
State: Piauí
Coordinate: 8° 40' S, 42° 33' W
Geography comments: coordinate based on the National Park
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 31.0
MAP: 650.0
Habitat comments: "dense arboreal Caatinga"
climate data based on Simone and Castai (2013, Zootaxa) and apply to Serra da Capivara
climate data based on Simone and Castai (2013, Zootaxa) and apply to Serra da Capivara
Methods
Life forms: lizards,snakes,turtles,caecilians,frogs
Sampling methods: drift fences,pitfall traps,hand capture
Sample size: 629 individuals
Years: 2012
Days: 30
Sampling comments: "active random searches... across ten different sampling points, and two lines of pitfall trap arrays" (with drift fences)
Metadata
Sample number: 500
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-03-20 20:28:02
Modified: 2014-04-26 07:36:50
Abundance distribution
37 species
10 singletons
total count 629
extrapolated richness: 62.5
Fisher's α: 8.591
geometric series k: 0.8799
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9006
Shannon's H: 2.6695
Good's u: 0.9841
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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