Kalakad National Park (FD)
Basic information
Sample name: Kalakad National Park (FD)
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"
exact altitude not stated, but the sites in general are at "altitude 920 to 1200 m"
exact altitude not stated, but the sites in general are at "altitude 920 to 1200 m"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: disturbed 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" that "has been subjected to (i) logging of round woods (mostly Eleaocarpus serratus and E. munronii) for cardamom curing and (ii) gathering dead (!) wood to meet the fuel wood requirement of about 30 families employed on the cardamom estate... cardamom cultivation was still in progress"
FD= frequently disturbed site
FD= frequently disturbed site
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 1
Site area: 1
Sampling methods: quadrat
Sample size: 574 individuals
Size min: 30
Basal area: 61.7
Sampling comments: site geometry not stated
Metadata
Sample number: 260
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-04-08 09:03:57
Modified: 2017-11-10 23:04:27
Abundance distribution
79 species
20 singletons
total count 574
extrapolated richness: 139.6
Fisher's α: 24.816
geometric series k: 0.9454
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9553
Shannon's H: 3.6662
Good's u: 0.9652
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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