Wharton Brook
Basic information
Sample name: Wharton Brook

Reference: B. Ellis and K. R. Johnson. 2013. Comparison of leaf samples from mapped tropical and temperate forests: implications for interpretations of the diversity of fossil assemblages. Palaios 28:163-177 [ER 2471]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Connecticut


Coordinate: 41.43° N, -72.84° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "a 96 acre (0.4 km2) state park... in Wallingford"
altitude of 400 ft is for Pistapaug Pond and is from Harger (1907, Rhodora)

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 10.2

WMT: 22.0

CMT: -2.0

MAP: 1158.0

Habitat comments: "hardwood deciduous forest"
definitely a fragment based on satellite photos

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site length: 85

Site width: 75

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 227 individuals

Years: 1988

Size min: 5

Basal area: 10.4966

Sampling comments: a "roughly half-hectare plot": inventoried area approximately 85 x 75 m or 0.6375 ha based on fig. 2 (area at top without mapped stems is excluded from this estimate)
basal area is the sum of values given in table 1

Metadata
Sample number: 2747

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-10-20 19:45:06

Modified: 2020-06-05 09:12:42

Abundance distribution
14 species
1 singleton
total count 227
geometric series index: 21.4
Fisher's α: 3.297
geometric series k: 0.6739
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4351
Shannon's H: 1.1551
Good's u: 0.9958
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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