Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (Degraded Forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (Degraded Forest)

Reference: R. Agrawal, B. Dixit, L. Singh, and B. M. Ojha. 2010. Composition, structure and floral diversity of forest communities of Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve: a comparison and conservation implication. Proceedings of the International Forestry and Environment Symposium 2010 of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka 309-317 [ER 699]
Geography
Country: India

State: Chhattisgarh


Coordinate: 21° 6' 30" N, 81° 45' 0" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: altitude range of 400 to 1100 m is for the reserve and Ahirwar and Sandya (2015, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Protection: biosphere reserve

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: agriculture,grazing,mining

WMT: 33.8

CMT: 17.5

MAP: 1322.0

Habitat comments: "Northern tropical moist deciduous and southern dry mixed deciduous forest" that is "degraded" by some combination of "illicit grazing by cattle, expansion of agriculture, increased mining, over exploitation of NTFP’s and medicinal plants"
cold month min/max 10.9/24.1, warm month min/max 25.6/42.0

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 3

Site area: 0.3

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 190 individuals

Size min: 9.6

Basal area: 9.846

Sampling comments: 10 10 x 10 m quadrats randomly placed within each of three plots

Metadata
Sample number: 1013

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-07-13 09:35:45

Modified: 2017-11-10 09:17:12

Abundance distribution
22 species
6 singletons
total count 190
extrapolated richness: 43.0
Fisher's α: 6.436
geometric series k: 0.8168
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7921
Shannon's H: 2.0801
Good's u: 0.9688
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register