Kathalkane
Basic information
Sample name: Kathalkane

Reference: P. Rama Bhat and K. M. Kaveriappa. 2009. Ecological studies on Myristica swamp forests of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India. Tropical Ecology 50(2):329-337 [ER 98]
Geography
Country: India

State: Karnataka


County: Uttara Kannada


Coordinate: 14° 15' 45" N, 74° 45' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "in Gersoppa, about 45 km from Honnavar"
elevation range 500 to 530 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 29.9

CMT: 24.3

MAP: 3705.0

Habitat comments: "The monthly maximum temperature varied from 28.2 to 33.5ºC and the monthly minimum from 20.4 to 26.2ºC"

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 20

Site area: 0.2

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 671 individuals

Seasons: dry

Size min: 10

Basal area: 382.64

Sampling comments: 10 x 10 m quadrats supposedly totalling an area of 2000 m2
the authors seem very sure of the area, but both the stem count and especially the basal area (382.64 m2) are extremely high for 0.2 ha, so I am assuming that a catastrophic error has been made and that the basal area is actually per ha instead of a total in m2

Metadata
Sample number: 239

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-03-25 12:05:19

Modified: 2017-11-02 03:32:24

Abundance distribution
63 species
16 singletons
total count 671
geometric series index: 114.9
Fisher's α: 17.033
geometric series k: 0.9280
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9217
Shannon's H: 3.0749
Good's u: 0.9762
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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