Oorani
Basic information
Sample name: Oorani
Reference: R. Venkateswaran and N. Parthasarathy. 2003. Tropical dry evergreen forests on the Corodmandel coast of India: structure, composition and disturbance. Ecotropica 9:45-58 [ER 2482]
Geography
Country: India
State: Tamil Nadu
Coordinate: 12° 11' N, 79° 57' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "about 28 km north of Pondicherry" occupying "an area of about... 1.8 ha... ~ 200 m away from human habitation"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: disturbed forest
Protection: unprotected
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: grazing
MAT: 28.5
MAP: 1311.0
Habitat comments: "tropical dry evergreen forest... degraded to thorny scrub due to anthropogenic disturbance" but this is "a comparatively tall forest with an average height of 8 m"
lightly disturbed by construction, temple visitors, cattle and goat browsing, and selective removal of plant products, but no logging
climate data are for Pondicherry
lightly disturbed by construction, temple visitors, cattle and goat browsing, and selective removal of plant products, but no logging
climate data are for Pondicherry
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 2
Site area: 1
Sampling methods: quadrat
Sample size: 1286 individuals
Size min: 10
Basal area: 27.3
Sampling comments: "two 200 m x 25 m plots, located one on either side of the temple (as a mud road of ~3-4 m wide divides the forest into two blocks)"
trees are "≥ 10 cm gbh" (not dbh)
trees are "≥ 10 cm gbh" (not dbh)
Metadata
Sample number: 2765
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-11-03 15:17:45
Modified: 2020-01-14 10:05:17
Abundance distribution
30 species
5 singletons
total count 1286
geometric series index: 41.1
Fisher's α: 5.495
geometric series k: 0.8136
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8401
Shannon's H: 2.3321
Good's u: 0.9961
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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