Sylvania Recreation Area (uncut)
Basic information
Sample name: Sylvania Recreation Area (uncut)
Sample aka: Northern-Hardwoods forests
Reference: D. A. Albert and B. V. Barnes. 1987. Effects of clearcutting on the vegetation and soil of a sugar maple-dominated ecosystem, western Upper Michigan. Forest Ecology and Management 18:283-298 [ER 34]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Michigan
Coordinate: 46° 12' 30" N, 89° 17' 0" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Protection: other protected area
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: selective logging
MAT: 4.3
WMT: 18.3
CMT: -10.9
MAP: 864.0
Habitat comments: millions of hectares of second-growth, northern hardwoods forests in this region are the result of commercial clearcutting that occurred in the first half of this century, beginning about 1900 (p. 284)
The ecosystem is dominated by sugar maple in the overstory (p. 285)
JA: the recreation area covers 8500 ha
JA: MAT 4.3 (Fujinuma et al. 2005) WMT 65.0 F CMT 12.4 F (NWS data for Marquette)
The ecosystem is dominated by sugar maple in the overstory (p. 285)
JA: the recreation area covers 8500 ha
JA: MAT 4.3 (Fujinuma et al. 2005) WMT 65.0 F CMT 12.4 F (NWS data for Marquette)
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 8
Site area: 0.36
Sampling methods: quadrat
Sample size: 1257 individuals
Size min: 1.5
Basal area: 41.3
Sampling comments: JA: two 15 x 30 m plots each in four areas
Metadata
Sample number: 110
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-02-28 13:19:48
Modified: 2020-01-14 09:31:12
Abundance distribution
6 species
0 singletons
total count 1257
geometric series index: 6.3
Fisher's α: 0.818
geometric series k: 0.3527
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.2286
Shannon's H: 0.5429
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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