Arasadikuppam
Basic information
Sample name: Arasadikuppam
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]
Geography
Country: India
State: Tamil Nadu
Coordinate: 12° 42' N, 80° 36' E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Geography comments: "39 km south of Pondicherry (and 16 km southwest of Cuddalore town)" occupying "an area of about 1.5 ha"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: fragment
Substrate: ground surface
Disturbance: grazing, selective logging
MAT: 28.5
MAP: 1311.0
Habitat comments: "tropical dry evergreen forest... degraded to thorny scrub due to anthropogenic disturbance... Site AK exhibits a stunted growth with an average tree height of 5 m"
disturbed by construction, temple visitors, cattle and goat browsing, and selective removal of plant products including some logging
climate data are for Pondicherry
disturbed by construction, temple visitors, cattle and goat browsing, and selective removal of plant products including some logging
climate data are for Pondicherry
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 1
Site length: 100.0
Site width: 100.0
Sampling methods: quadrat
Sample size: 2815 individuals
Years: 2001
Net or trap nights: 0
Size min: 10.0
Basal area status: total is
Basal area: 17.63
Sampling comments: trees are "≥ 10 cm gbh" (not dbh)
Metadata
Sample no: 2764
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-11-03 15:07:01
Modified: 2017-11-03 04:17:21
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
31 species
7 singletons
total count 2815
geometric series index: 50.0
Fisher's α: 4.874
geometric series k: 0.7967
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7852
Shannon's H: 1.8231
Good's u: 0.9975
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