North Woods (transition community)
Basic information
Sample name: North Woods (transition community)

Sample aka: Iowa State College

Reference: J. M. Aikman and A. W. Smelser. 1938. The structure and environment of forest communities in central Iowa. Ecology 19(1):141-150 [ER 104]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Iowa


County: Ames


Coordinate: 42° 1' N, 93° 39' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in the original grant to Iowa State College in 1856 by Story and Boone Counties"
coordinate is based on Iowa State University
altitude is for Ames at 42º0'35" N, 93º39'42" W and is from López et al. (2008, Genet Resour Crop Evol)

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 30.0

CMT: -12.8

MAP: 812.8

Habitat comments: "A small tract of virgin forest, 30 acres in extent"
CMT, WMT, and MAP are given in the text

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 5

Site area: 0.202

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 148 individuals

Size min: 2

Sampling comments: JA: "five one-tenth acre quadrats"

Metadata
Sample number: 249

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-04-05 14:42:29

Modified: 2020-06-05 08:57:41

Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 148
geometric series index: 10.7
Fisher's α: 2.110
geometric series k: 0.6579
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7751
Shannon's H: 1.7671
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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