La Gamba (intensive land use)
Basic information
Sample name: La Gamba (intensive land use)

Sample aka: Piedras Blancas National Park

Reference: M. Wiemers and K. Fiedler. 2008. Butterfly diversity of the Piedras Blancas National Park and its vicinity - a preliminary assessment (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea). Stapfia 88:277-294 [ER 890]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica

State: Puntarenas


Coordinate: 8° 42' 30" N, 83° 11' 0" W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on La Gamba

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: plantation

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 27.4

WMT: 31.5

CMT: 23.2

MAP: 5720.0

Habitat comments: three oil palm plantations, two pastures, wayside verges, and a garden
climate data are for the Tropical Field Station La Gamba and are from Umana and Wanek (2010, Ecosystems)

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sampling methods: no design,visual

Sample size: 414 individuals

Years: 2006, 2007

Seasons: dry

Sampling comments: sampling in 2006 was at fixed sites and in 2007 was along transects

Metadata
Sample number: 1332

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-21 21:38:11

Modified: 2016-12-13 08:51:33

Abundance distribution
53 species
24 singletons
total count 414
extrapolated richness: 127.4
Fisher's α: 16.147
geometric series k: 0.9237
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9179
Shannon's H: 2.9630
Good's u: 0.9421
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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