Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (partially surrounded, secondary forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (partially surrounded, secondary forest)
Reference: I. Vleut, S. I. Levy-Tacher, J. Galindo-González, and W. F. de Boer. 2015. Positive effects of surrounding rainforest on composition, diversity and late-successional seed dispersal by bats. Basic and Applied Ecology 16(4):308-315 [ER 1167]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Chiapas
Coordinate: 17° 46' 8" N, 91° 8' 12" W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Protection: biosphere reserve
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 24.7
MAP: 2000.0
Habitat comments: "evergreen rainforest with dominant species such as Dialium guianense, Brosimum alicastrum, Swietenia macrophylla, Ficus spp. and Spondias mombin... secondary forest sites had been abandoned 10–15 years prior to the study" and were previously subjected to "slash and burn agroforestry"
MAP is a minimum estimate
MAP is a minimum estimate
Methods
Life forms: bats
Sites: 4
Sampling methods: no design, mist nets
Sample size: 537 individuals
Years: 2010, 2011
Days: 48
Nets or traps: 3
Net or trap nights: 144
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Bats were sampled each month, from April 2010 to March 2011 using 3 (12 × 2.4 m, 36mm mesh) mist nets inside the sites, set at ground level, from 0.5 h before sunset until 4h after, 1 night per site"
Metadata
Sample no: 1695
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2015-07-08 17:23:09
Modified: 2015-07-08 09:56:44
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
12 species
0 singleton
total count 537
geometric series index: 13.1
Fisher's α: 2.177
geometric series k: 0.7057
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7701
Shannon's H: 1.7884
Good's u: 1
Register
| Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat) | 19 | 48.0 g |
| Artibeus lituratus (great fruit-eating bat) | 15 | 68.5 g |
| Artibeus phaeotis (pygmy fruit-eating bat) | 25 | |
| Artibeus toltecus (Toltec fruit-eating bat) | 4 | 14.6 g |
| Artibeus watsoni (Thomas's fruit-eating bat) | 10 | |
| Carollia perspicillata (Seba's short-tailed bat) | 185 | 19.6 g |
| Carollia sowelli (Sowell's short-tailed bat) | 150 | 16.9 g |
| Glossophaga commissarisi (Commissaris's long-tongued bat) | 13 | 9.3 g |
| Glossophaga soricina (Pallas's long-tongued bat) | 17 | 10.5 g |
| Platyrrhinus helleri (Heller's broad-nosed bat) | 4 | 19.4 g |
| Sturnira parvidens (northern yellow-shouldered bat) | 87 | 16.5 g |
| Uroderma bilobatum (tent-making bat) | 8 | 18.1 g |