Hill Bank
Basic information
Sample name: Hill Bank
Reference: A. A. Whitman, J. M. Hagan III, and N. V. L. Brokaw. 1997. A comparison of two bird survey techniques in a subtropical forest. Condor 99(4):955-965 [ER 1233]
Geography
Country: Belize
Coordinate: 17° 36' N, 88° 42' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "Orange Walk District, northern Belize, in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: selective logging
MAT: 27.0
MAP: 1500.0
Habitat comments: "upland evergreen, broadleaf forest... disturbed by occasional hurricanes, past deforestation by Maya during the period 0-1,000 AD, and low-intensity selective logging since the early 1800s"
"subtropical moist... 10% of the rain" falls from "January to May"
MAP stated in the text; MAT is based on Phillips and Hatten (2012, Boletin SAO)
"subtropical moist... 10% of the rain" falls from "January to May"
MAP stated in the text; MAT is based on Phillips and Hatten (2012, Boletin SAO)
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: no design,mist nets
Sample size: 620 individuals
Years: 1993
Days: 180
Seasons: dry
Nets or traps: 3
Net or trap nights: 540
Sampling comments: "Three mist nets (2.6 x 12 m, 36-mm mesh) were used" at each of 60 points and were opened for 5 hours a day, and six points were sampled "each day... for three consecutive days"
Metadata
Sample number: 1777
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-09-20 09:58:51
Modified: 2015-09-27 08:23:04
Abundance distribution
58 species
15 singletons
total count 620
extrapolated richness: 94.4
Fisher's α: 15.661
geometric series k: 0.9365
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9601
Shannon's H: 3.4862
Good's u: 0.9758
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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