Rincón de Osa
Basic information
Sample name: Rincón de Osa

Reference: M. A. Mares and D. E. Wilson. 1971. Bat reproduction during the Costa Rican dry season. BioScience 21(10):471-477 [ER 397]
Geography
Country: Costa Rica

State: Puntarenas


Coordinate: 8° 33' N, 83° 30' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: coordinate based on Osa Peninsula

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 25.0

MAP: 6000.0

Habitat comments: "Pacific Wet Lowlands"
text stats that precip is "more than" 4500 mm; this figure greatly exceeds precip at the nearest climate station (78762), so MAT and MAP are based on Carrilllo et al. (2000, Conservation Biology)

Methods
Life forms: bats

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets,hand capture

Sample size: 310 individuals

Years: 1968, 1970

Sampling comments: bats were shot or "netted" (presumably mist netted)

Metadata
Sample number: 740

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-04 17:20:39

Modified: 2014-04-24 22:45:59

Abundance distribution
24 species
9 singletons
total count 310
geometric series index: 46.0
Fisher's α: 6.073
geometric series k: 0.8313
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8832
Shannon's H: 2.4362
Good's u: 0.9710
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Saccopteryx bilineata17.9 g insectivore
Pteronotus personatus18.0 g insectivore
"Chilonycteris psilotis"
Pteronotus parnellii119.1 g insectivore
Phyllostomus hastatus1100 g nectarivore-frugivore
Phyllostomus discolor4440.3 g nectarivore-frugivore
Glossophaga soricina210.5 g frugivore-nectarivore
Glossophaga commissarisi39.3 g nectarivore
Lonchophylla concava258.1 g
Carollia perspicillata3819.6 g frugivore
Carollia castanea1511.9 g frugivore
Carollia subrufa7015.4 g frugivore
Uroderma bilobatum1218.1 g frugivore
Platyrrhinus helleri1815.6 g frugivore
"Vampyrops helleri"
Vampyressa thyone18.0 g frugivore
Vampyriscus nymphaea1213.8 g frugivore
"Vampyressa nymphaea"
Artibeus jamaicensis2248.0 g frugivore
Artibeus lituratus668.5 g frugivore
Artibeus cinereus3011.1 g frugivore
Artibeus phaeotis113.1 g frugivore
Enchisthenes hartii115.5 g frugivore
"Artibeus hartii"
Centurio senex219.0 g frugivore
Noctilio leporinus163.3 g insectivore-piscivore
Noctilio labialis229.6 g insectivore
Molossus ater134.7 g insectivore