Nogal Canyon
Basic information
Sample name: Nogal Canyon

Reference: H. L. Black. 1974. A north temperate bat community: structure and prey populations. Journal of Mammalogy 55(1):138-157 [ER 412]
Geography
Country: United States

State: New Mexico


Coordinate: 33° 52' N, 107° 21' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "San Mateo Mountains (51 kilometers S, 10 kilometers W Magdalena"

Environment
Habitat: temperate coniferous forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 25.8

CMT: 2.3

MAP: 242.0

Habitat comments: "a heterogeneous mixture of pinyon-juniper, pine-oak woodlands, and mixed-conifer forest"
precip is based on a weather station 128 km away
MAP stated in text; CMT and WMT based on station 72365 (Albuquerque International Sunport)

Methods
Life forms: bats

Sites: 2

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 855 captures or sightings

Days: 41

Net or trap nights: 226

Sampling comments: two collecting sites (Nogal and Weir Tank) spaced 1.5 km apart and sampled "on most nights" with "five or six 18-meter nets" over a period of 41 nights; 97% of captures were at Weir Tank

Metadata
Sample number: 756

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-04-06 21:16:28

Modified: 2014-05-14 03:10:54

Abundance distribution
16 species
2 singletons
total count 855
geometric series index: 19.7
Fisher's α: 2.794
geometric series k: 0.6698
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7072
Shannon's H: 1.7028
Good's u: 0.9977
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Myotis auriculus136.8 g insectivore
Myotis sp.25
Myotis evotis156.5 g insectivore
Myotis lucifugus17.4 g insectivore
Myotis thysanodes106.7 g insectivore
Myotis volans387.4 g insectivore
Myotis yumanensis204.8 g insectivore
Parastrellus hesperus93.7 g insectivore
"Pipistrellus hesperus"
Eptesicus fuscus19517.2 g insectivore
Lasiurus cinereus7420.7 g insectivore
Lasionycteris noctivagans2310.0 g insectivore
Euderma maculatum515.7 g insectivore
Idionycteris phyllotis512.6 g insectivore
Corynorhinus townsendii1 insectivore
"Plecotus townsendii"
Antrozous pallidus1316.5 g insectivore
Tadarida brasiliensis40811.3 g insectivore