El Pechiche
Basic information
Sample name: El Pechiche

Sample aka: Machalilla National Park

Reference: C. Josse and H. Balslev. 1994. The composition and structure of a dry, semideciduous forest in western Ecuador. Nordic Journal of Botany 14:425-434 [ER 692]
Geography
Country: Ecuador



Coordinate: 1° 26' S, 80° 41' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: elevation 320 to 365 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 20.0

MAP: 375.0

Habitat comments: climate data are for the park and are based on Becker and Agreda (2005)

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site area: 1

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 538 individuals

Size min: 5

Basal area: 7.5

Sampling comments: counts given as percentages out of a total of 538 stems
site dimensions unclear

Metadata
Sample number: 1002

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-07-06 16:43:58

Modified: 2014-07-17 11:24:04

Abundance distribution
37 species
11 singletons
total count 538
geometric series index: 68.7
Fisher's α: 9.011
geometric series k: 0.8640
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8347
Shannon's H: 2.4516
Good's u: 0.9796
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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