Cumaná
Basic information
Sample name: Cumaná
Reference: A. Tarroux, R. McNeil, and P. Legendre. 2003. Influence of rainfall on the composition of a tropical avian assemblage in northeastern Venezuela. Ecotropica 9:15-31 [ER 804]
Geography
Country: Venezuela
State: Sucre
Coordinate: 10° 25' N, 64° 11' W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "near the city of Cumaná... elevation less than 100 m"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 27.2
CMT: 25.5
MAP: 436.0
Habitat comments: "a seasonal semi-arid climate" with a "dry season from November to April... the vegetation cover [a tropical thorn woodland] was highly disturbed following the recent development of Cumaná's outlying districts in the 1980s and 90s" but sampling predated this interval
climate data based on station 80420 (Cumaná)
climate data based on station 80420 (Cumaná)
Methods
Life forms: birds
Sampling methods: mist nets
Sample size: 3281 individuals
Years: 1965 - 1967
Days: 88
Nets or traps: 9
Net or trap nights: 792
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: sampled was during "two consecutive days every two or three weeks, using eight to ten mist-nets simultaneously (3x12 m, 4 shelves, 36-mm mesh)" and was for a "total of 9842 mist-net-hours" over "44 sessions"
Metadata
Sample no: 1151
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2014-09-04 09:45:54
Modified: 2014-09-03 23:45:54
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
66 species
9 singletons
total count 3281
geometric series index: 85.1
Fisher's α: 11.703
geometric series k: 0.9057
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9347
Shannon's H: 3.2785
Good's u: 0.9973
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