Sample name: Oorani

Reference: R. Venkateswaran and N. Parthasarathy. 2003. Tropical dry evergreen forests on the Corodmandel coast of India: structure, composition and disturbance. Ecotropica 9:45-58 [ER 2482]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing

MAT: 28.5

MAP: 1311.0

Habitat comments: "tropical dry evergreen forest... degraded to thorny scrub due to anthropogenic disturbance" but this is "a comparatively tall forest with an average height of 8 m"
lightly disturbed by construction, temple visitors, cattle and goat browsing, and selective removal of plant products, but no logging
climate data are for Pondicherry

Life forms: trees

Sites: 2

Site area: 1

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 1286 individuals

Size min: 10

Basal area: 27.3

Sampling comments: "two 200 m x 25 m plots, located one on either side of the temple (as a mud road of ~3-4 m wide divides the forest into two blocks)"
trees are "≥ 10 cm gbh" (not dbh)

Sample number: 2765

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-11-03 15:17:45

Modified: 2020-01-14 10:05:17