Sekyere East Afram Plain
Basic information
Sample name: Sekyere East Afram Plain

Reference: M. Appiah. 2013. Tree population inventory, diversity and degradation analysis of a tropical dry deciduous forest in Afram Plains, Ghana. Forest Ecology and Management 295:145-154 [ER 700]
Geography
Country: Ghana


Coordinate: 7° 25' N, 0° 17' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: southwest of Digya National Park (basis of coordinate)
altitude range of 90 to 180 m is for Digya National Park and is from Jachmann (2008, Biological Conservation)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: recent fire,agriculture,selective logging

WMT: 27.7

CMT: 23.5

MAP: 1350.0

Habitat comments: "a mosaic of forests and savannah vegetation" with very low stem density that is disturbed by "wildfires, shifting cultivation, wood extraction, and seasonal flooding"
MAP 1300 to 1400; CMT and WMT based on station 65376 (Retenue de Nangbeto), which has identical MAP

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 5

Site area: 40

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 547 individuals

Size min: 10

Basal area: 42.33

Sampling comments: five sites each consisting of two 20 x 2000 m plots

Metadata
Sample number: 1014

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-07-13 10:58:34

Modified: 2017-11-10 09:01:08

Abundance distribution
44 species
0 singletons
total count 547
geometric series index: 53.3
Fisher's α: 11.276
geometric series k: 0.9183
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9412
Shannon's H: 3.2676
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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