Sample name: Agua Salud

Reference: M. van Breugel, J. S. Hall, D. Craven, M. Bailon, A. Hernandez, M. Abbene, and P. van Breugel. 2013. Succession of ephemeral secondary forests and their limited role for the conservation of floristic diversity in a human-modified tropical landscape. PLoS ONE 8(e82433):1-13 [ER 2105]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAP: 2700.0

Habitat comments: "664 ha of land... of which ~530 ha is covered by fallow vegetation and forests of various ages" with the "age of sites included in the analyses [varying] from 2 to 32 years"

Life forms: trees

Sites: 45

Site area: 9.8

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 8805 individuals

Size min: 5

Sampling comments: "We chose 52 sites at random within the forested area" each "within a former agricultural field or cattle pasture" but some were unsuitable, so the authors "used a total of 45 secondary forest dynamic (SFD) sites and 98 SFD plots for analysis" (the first figure applies to sites = paired quadrats and the second figure applies to the quadrats per se)
"we established a 20 x 50 m plot on the upper portion and another plot on the lower portion of the same slope" across the sites, so the total sampled area is 98 x 20 x 50 m = 9.8 ha
entered counts are for the > 5 cm size class only because "In one half of each plot, all woody, non-climbing plants with 1–5 cm DBH" were also censused but in the other half this size class was not
total quadrat basal area is clearly known to the authors but not stated anywhere

Sample number: 2055

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-06-12 17:06:39

Modified: 2016-06-12 07:06:39