Varagalaira
Basic information
Sample name: Varagalaira
Sample aka: Gandhi Wildlife sanctuary and National Park
Reference: N. Ayyappan and N. Parthasarathy. 1999. Biodiversity inventory of trees in a large-scale permanent plot of tropical evergreen forest at Varagalaiar, Anamalais, Western Ghats, India. Biodiversity and Conservation 8(11):1533-1544 [ER 56]
Geography
Country: India
State: Tamil Nadu
Coordinate: 10° 25' N, 76° 52' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: The study site is situated about 100 km south of Coimbatore town
elevation 600 to 660 m
elevation 600 to 660 m
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: wildlife protected area
Substrate: ground surface
WMT: 36.4
CMT: 18.3
MAP: 3523.0
Habitat comments: JA: CMT/WMT are for the Coimbatore District and MAP is for Anamalai (Rathod and Aruchamy 2010)
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 1
Site length: 600
Site width: 500
Sampling methods: line transect,quadrat
Sample size: 13386 individuals
Years: 1997-1998
Size min: 30
Basal area: 36.36
Sampling comments: Size of trees starts at 30 cm girth at breast height (p. 1536)
Metadata
Sample number: 150
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-03-07 12:38:15
Modified: 2014-07-15 23:39:29
Abundance distribution
148 species
13 singletons
total count 13386
extrapolated richness: 179.3
Fisher's α: 23.286
geometric series k: 0.9519
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9655
Shannon's H: 3.9258
Good's u: 0.9990
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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