Sample name: Alcanfores

Sample aka: San Cristobal de las Casas

Reference: J. L. León-Cortés, U. Caballero, I. D. Miss-Barrera, and M. Girón-Intzin. 2019. Preserving butterfly diversity in an ever-expanding urban landscape? A case study in the highlands of Chiapas, México. Journal of Insect Conservation 23:405-418 [ER 3287]

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 15.0

MAP: 1186.0

Habitat comments: "temperate sub-humid with summer rains, with an average precipitation and temperature of 1186 mm and 15 °C, respectively... The surrounding (suburban) vegetation includes a mosaic of successional stages associated with oak, pine-oak, and in upper parts, with cloud forest"
the site was "in the nearby vicinity of the urban landscape" but shown on a map as not within an inhabited area per se

Life forms: butterflies

Sites: 1

Site length: 500.0

Site width: 500.0

Sampling methods: line transect, visual

Sample size: 283 captures or sightings

Years: 2006, 2008

Seasons: spring, summer, autumn

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: a 500 x 500 m site
"All 500-m sites were surveyed in April–October 2006 and resurveyed in August–October 2008" (apparently using Pollard walks)
some voucher specimens were taken
35 transects in 2006 and 10 in 2008

Sample no: 3649

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2020-06-03 14:34:37

Modified: 2020-06-03 04:34:37