Sample name: Otún-Quimbaya Flora and Fauna Sanctuary (ash plantation)

Reference: S. M. Durán and G. H. Kattan. 2005. A test of the utility of exotic tree plantations for understory birds and food resources in the Colombian Andes. Biotropica 37(1):129-135 [ER 937]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: plantation

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 16.8

MAP: 2630.0

Habitat comments: the "original forest... was replaced by pastures during the first half of the twentieth century... During the 1960s, a revegetation program was initiated for erosion control" and these plots were "planted with monocultures of exotic Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis)"
MAP stated in text; MAT based on Mantilla et al. (2015)

Life forms: birds

Sites: 20

Site area: 0.6

Sampling methods: quadrat, mist nets

Sample size: 75 individuals

Years: 2000

Days: 20

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Nets or traps: 4

Net or trap nights: 80

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "20 sampling plots... In each plot we placed four mist-nets arranged in a cross, covering an area of about 300 m2... Each plot was sampled once during the study period"

Sample no: 1412

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-02-26 21:34:10

Modified: 2015-09-27 07:21:56