Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (distant sites)
Basic information
Sample name: Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (distant sites)

Sample aka: Budhipadaga

Reference: U. Shankar, K. S. Murali, R. Uma Shaanker, K. N. Ganeshaiah, and K. S. Bawa. 1998. Extraction of non-timber forest products in the forests of Biligiri Rangan Hills, India. 4. Impact on floristic diversity and population structure in a thorn scrub forest. Economic Botany 52(3):302-315 [ER 2509]
Geography
Country: India

State: Karnataka



Coordinate: 12° 0' N, 77° 8' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "in the southern range of the scrub forest adjoining a human settlement (Budhipadaga)" and specifically "4- 6 km from the settlement"
sites are "from 700 to 1200 m"
coordinate based on Biligiriranganatha Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary

Environment
Habitat: desert/xeric shrubland

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

MAT: 25.3

MAP: 748.0

Habitat comments: "scrub forests... most trees in the forest are in some way economically important" as "non-timber forest products" such as fuelwood and poles used in construction
climate data are for the sanctuary

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sampling methods: belt transect

Sample size: 208 individuals

Years: 1992, 1993

Size min: 10

Basal area: 4.3858

Sampling comments: "four transects were sampled from a 2 ha area in the form of four 500 m long and 10 m wide linear transects... Each transect was a continuum of five plots" (apparently meaning contiguous plots)
extraordinarily low basal area figure appears to be correctly computed

Metadata
Sample number: 2801

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-11-22 10:23:14

Modified: 2017-11-21 23:23:14

Abundance distribution
29 species
10 singletons
total count 208
geometric series index: 55.1
Fisher's α: 9.161
geometric series k: 0.8808
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9116
Shannon's H: 2.7711
Good's u: 0.9521
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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