Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (interior)
Basic information
Sample name: Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (interior)

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

Protection: biosphere reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 27.0

WMT: 35.0

CMT: 13.0

MAP: 4964.0

Habitat comments: "tropical evergreen forest" located in "Six fragments between 26 and 472 ha in size" of which most appear to be > 100 ha in area
"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: 846 individuals

Years: 2003, 2004

Sampling comments: 42 50 m long, 2 m wide transects

Metadata
Sample number: 449

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-03-17 13:11:58

Modified: 2015-02-23 22:30:34

Abundance distribution
35 species
8 singletons
total count 846
extrapolated richness: 58.4
Fisher's α: 7.365
geometric series k: 0.8330
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6185
Shannon's H: 1.6691
Good's u: 0.9906
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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