The Ecological Register: Cañas

Cañas

Basic information

Sample name: Cañas

Reference: M. A. Mares and D. E. Wilson. 1971. Bat reproduction during the Costa Rican dry season. BioScience 21(10):471-477 [ER 397]

Geography

Country: Costa Rica

State: Guanacaste

Coordinate: 10° 26' N, 85° 6' W

Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Cantón de Cañas

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Environment

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 24.9

CMT: 22.3

MAP: 1700.0

Habitat comments: "Pacific Dry Lowlands"
MAP given in text; CMT and WMT based on station 78762 (Alajuela), which has a comparable MAP

Methods

Life forms: bats

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets,hand capture

Sample size: 351 individuals

Years: 1968, 1970

Sampling comments: bats were shot or "netted" (presumably mist netted)

Metadata

Sample number: 739

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-04 16:22:17

Modified: 2014-04-24 22:48:27

Abundance distribution

22 species

5 singletons

total count 351

extrapolated richness: 35.0

Fisher's α: 5.206

geometric series k: 0.8050

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8489

Shannon's H: 2.2635

Good's u: 0.9858

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

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