Los Tuxtlas Biological Research Station (forest fragment bats)
Basic information
Sample name: Los Tuxtlas Biological Research Station (forest fragment bats)
Reference: A. Estrada and R. Coates-Estrada. 2001. Species composition and reproductive phenology of bats in a tropical landscape at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:627-646 [ER 399]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Veracruz
Coordinate: 18° 25' N, 95° 0' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: elevation from zero to 300 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: fragment
Protection: biosphere reserve
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 27.0
MAP: 4900.0
Habitat comments: "A 90-km 2 landscape, originally occupied by rain forest, consisted of forest fragments and natural corridors of vegetation surrounded by pasturelands"
forest fragments ranged "in area from 1 to 200 ha (median = 18 ha, average = 35±39 ha)"
forest fragments ranged "in area from 1 to 200 ha (median = 18 ha, average = 35±39 ha)"
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sites: 52
Sampling methods: no design,mist nets
Sample size: 2098 individuals
Years: 1996 - 1998
Net or trap nights: 208
Sampling comments: site count is of forest fragments
208 sample nights and 1040 net hours
208 sample nights and 1040 net hours
Metadata
Sample number: 742
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-04-04 17:36:46
Modified: 2020-06-05 06:47:32
Abundance distribution
37 species
2 singletons
total count 2098
extrapolated richness: 45.8
Fisher's α: 6.381
geometric series k: 0.8424
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8823
Shannon's H: 2.5729
Good's u: 0.9990
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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