Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (Sal Forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (Sal Forest)

Reference: R. Agrawal, B. Dixit, L. Singh, and B. M. Ojha. 2010. Composition, structure and floral diversity of forest communities of Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve: a comparison and conservation implication. Proceedings of the International Forestry and Environment Symposium 2010 of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka 309-317 [ER 699]
Geography
Country: India

State: Chhattisgarh


Coordinate: 21° 6' 30" N, 81° 45' 0" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: altitude range of 400 to 1100 m is for the reserve and Ahirwar and Sandya (2015, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Protection: biosphere reserve

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 33.8

CMT: 17.5

MAP: 1322.0

Habitat comments: "Northern tropical moist deciduous and southern dry mixed deciduous forest"
cold month min/max 10.9/24.1, warm month min/max 25.6/42.0

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 3

Site area: 0.3

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 361 individuals

Size min: 9.6

Basal area: 10.908

Sampling comments: 10 10 x 10 m quadrats randomly placed within each of three plots

Metadata
Sample number: 1012

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-07-13 09:02:30

Modified: 2017-11-10 09:12:35

Abundance distribution
30 species
9 singletons
total count 361
geometric series index: 54.9
Fisher's α: 7.773
geometric series k: 0.8517
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8620
Shannon's H: 2.4495
Good's u: 0.9751
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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