Kalakad National Park (SF)
Basic information
Sample name: Kalakad National Park (SF)
Reference: N. Parthasarthy. 1999. Tree diversity and distribution in undisturbed and human-impacted sites of tropical wet evergreen forest in southern Western Ghats, India. Biodiversity and Conservation 8:1365-1381 [ER 108]
Geography
Country: India
State: Tamil Nadu
Coordinate: 8° 30' N, 77° 30' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range
Geography comments: "Research was carried out in Kalakad National Park (KNP) (8º25′ N and 8º35′ N latitude and 77º25′ E and 77º35′ E longitude) located in the Agasthyamalai range of southern Western Ghats, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, south India"
this site is "at 1160 m"
this site is "at 1160 m"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: selective logging
MAT: 22.5
WMT: 30.0
CMT: 15.0
MAP: 3000.0
Habitat comments: "tropical wet evergreen forest" and specifically "at a site that was disturbed 35 years ago. There are no records of the intensity or extent of disturbance. According to the local, elderly estate workers small stems were removed, leaving the large ones as shade, to develop it into a cardamom estate. As cardamom yield was low the site was abandoned without further interference"
SF= select-felled site
SF= select-felled site
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 1
Site area: 1
Sampling methods: quadrat
Sample size: 854 individuals
Size min: 30
Basal area: 66.87
Sampling comments: site geometry not stated
Metadata
Sample number: 259
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-04-08 08:54:53
Modified: 2017-11-10 23:03:40
Abundance distribution
82 species
17 singletons
total count 854
extrapolated richness: 134.2
Fisher's α: 22.350
geometric series k: 0.9478
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9593
Shannon's H: 3.6460
Good's u: 0.9801
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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