Uppangala
Basic information
Sample name: Uppangala
Sample aka: Kadamakal Reserve Forest
Reference: J.-P. Pascal and R. Pelissier. 1996. Structure and floristic composition of a tropical evergreen forest in south-west India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12(2):191-214 [ER 11]
Geography
Country: India
State: Karnataka
Coordinate: 12° 30' N, 75° 39' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: altitude 500 to 600 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 27.0
WMT: 29.0
CMT: 25.0
MAP: 4132.0
Dry months: 4
Habitat comments: JA: a 28 ha primary forest plot embedded within logged forest (treated as not a fragment)
JA: MAT, WMT, CMT based on nearby site; WMT and CMT estimated from figure
< 50 mm/mo precip from December through March (leading into warmest month, April
), almost exactly 100 mm in April, and never 50 - 100 mm
JA: MAT, WMT, CMT based on nearby site; WMT and CMT estimated from figure
< 50 mm/mo precip from December through March (leading into warmest month, April
), almost exactly 100 mm in April, and never 50 - 100 mm
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 5
Site area: 3.12
Sampling methods: line transect
Sample size: 1980 individuals
Years: 1990
Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon
Size min: 10
Basal area: 39.7
Sampling comments: Numer of each species is given in terms of percentage of relative density (rD %). Thus, these values must be multiply by 19.81 (1981 is the total number of counted trees).
Metadata
Sample number: 48
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-02-07 15:11:14
Modified: 2015-02-22 22:51:17
Abundance distribution
91 species
19 singletons
total count 1980
geometric series index: 146.6
Fisher's α: 19.695
geometric series k: 0.9376
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9187
Shannon's H: 3.1570
Good's u: 0.9904
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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