Wharton Brook
Basic information
Sample name: Wharton Brook
Reference: B. Ellis and K. R. Johnson. 2013. Comparison of leaf samples from mapped tropical and temperate forests: implications for interpretations of the diversity of fossil assemblages. Palaios 28:163-177 [ER 2471]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Connecticut
Coordinate: 41.43° N, -72.84° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "a 96 acre (0.4 km2) state park... in Wallingford"
altitude of 400 ft is for Pistapaug Pond and is from Harger (1907, Rhodora)
altitude of 400 ft is for Pistapaug Pond and is from Harger (1907, Rhodora)
Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest
Altered habitat: fragment
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 10.2
WMT: 22.0
CMT: -2.0
MAP: 1158.0
Habitat comments: "hardwood deciduous forest"
definitely a fragment based on satellite photos
definitely a fragment based on satellite photos
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 1
Site length: 85
Site width: 75
Sampling methods: quadrat
Sample size: 227 individuals
Years: 1988
Size min: 5
Basal area: 10.4966
Sampling comments: a "roughly half-hectare plot": inventoried area approximately 85 x 75 m or 0.6375 ha based on fig. 2 (area at top without mapped stems is excluded from this estimate)
basal area is the sum of values given in table 1
basal area is the sum of values given in table 1
Metadata
Sample number: 2747
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-10-20 19:45:06
Modified: 2020-06-05 09:12:42
Abundance distribution
14 species
1 singleton
total count 227
extrapolated richness: 21.4
Fisher's α: 3.297
geometric series k: 0.6739
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4351
Shannon's H: 1.1551
Good's u: 0.9958
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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