Sample name: Kade Plot 1

Sample aka: University of Ghana Agricultural Research Station

Reference: G. W. Lawson, K. O. Armstrong-Mensah, and J. B. Hall. 1970. A catena in tropical moist semi-deciduous forest near Kade, Ghana. Journal of Ecology 58(2):371-398 [ER 7]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 28.0

MAP: 1179.0

Dry months: 4

Habitat comments: "moist semi-deciduous forest"
climate data are for the station and are based on Owusu-Bennoah et al. (2000, West African Journal of Applied Ecology), who state that "80 pe cent" of rainfall falls "from March to mid-July and from September to November"

Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site length: 30.48

Site width: 30.48

Sampling methods: line transect,quadrat

Sample size: 102 individuals

Years: 1964

Size min: 10

Sampling comments: see table 3 (p. 388)
plots are "100 x 100 ft (30.5 x 30.5 m)" (actually 30.48 m)
A series of six 100x 100 ft (30-5x 30-5 m) plots forming a transect down the catena were marked out...At the same time, the ground vegetation of the catena was investigated on a series of fifty-six 5 x 5 ft (1-52 x 1-52 m) quadrats placed 20 ft (6-1 m) apart forming a transect parallel to the plots mentioned above.(p. 387)

Sample number: 34

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2013-01-25 14:32:58

Modified: 2017-11-11 22:59:24