Table 2 The relative abundance, frequency and dominance of species, and Importance Value Index (IVI) of species present in the Ejido de San Juan Raboso, Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, (arranged in descending order by value of their IVI).

From: Effects of copal resin extraction on the diversity and composition of species in tropical deciduous forests

Scientific name

Relative abundance

Relative frequency

Relative dominance

IVI

ind. ha−1

%

Sites

%

m2 ha−1

%

%

Opuntia streptacantha

609

34.0

49

14.3

119.6

2.6

17.0

Ipomoea wolcottiana

74

4.1

30

8.7

920.3

20.2

11.0

Ceiba aesculifolia

26

1.4

12

3.5

808.2

17.7

7.6

Acacia pennatula

113

6.3

29

8.5

227.1

5.0

6.6

Bursera bipinnata

33

1.9

17

5.0

440.1

9.7

5.5

Lonchocarpus caudatus

94

5.3

11

3.2

327.1

7.2

5.2

Stenocereus griseus

96

5.4

24

7.0

108.9

2.4

4.9

Stenocereus stellatus

104

5.8

27

7.9

39.9

0.9

4.8

Acacia farnesiana

69

3.8

24

7.0

155.5

3.4

4.7

Echinocactus platyacanthus

148

8.3

18

5.2

18.6

0.4

4.6

Mimosa benthami

70

3.9

11

3.2

159.7

3.5

3.5

Piptadenia viridiflora

46

2.6

13

3.8

192.4

4.2

3.5

Acacia coulteri

30

1.7

14

4.1

209.4

4.6

3.4

Bunchosia lanceolata

91

5.1

12

3.5

25.6

0.6

3.0

Acacia cochiliacantha

59

3.3

12

3.5

67.0

1.5

2.8

Bursera copallifera

15

0.8

8

2.3

205.3

4.5

2.6

Styphnolobium burseroides

9

0.5

5

1.5

147.3

3.2

1.7

Pithecellobium acatlense

24

1.3

8

2.3

42.5

0.9

1.5

Agave ghiesbreghtii

26

1.4

5

1.5

20.4

0.4

1.1

Cyrtocarpa procera

2

0.1

1

0.3

105.1

2.3

0.9

Masdenia zimapanica

17

0.9

4

1.2

10.6

0.2

0.8

Celtis cauadata

6

0.3

2

0.6

47.5

1.0

0.6

Conzattia multiflora

2

0.1

1

0.3

46.0

1.0

0.5

Cassia emarginata

17

0.9

1

0.3

2.1

0.05

0.4

Bursera aptera

2

0.1

1

0.3

36.4

0.8

0.4

Lysiloma divaracata

2

0.1

1

0.3

29.4

0.6

0.3

Bursera aloexylon

2

0.1

1

0.3

23.3

0.5

0.3

Heliocarpus terebinthinaceus

4

0.2

1

0.3

18.2

0.4

0.3

Agave karwinskii

4

0.2

1

0.3

4.2

0.1

0.2

 

1793

100.00

343

100.00

4557.8

100.00

100.00