Southeast of Kakachi
Basic information
Sample name: Southeast of Kakachi

Sample aka: Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

Reference: T. Ganesh, R. Ganesan, M. Soubadra Devy, P. Davidar, and K. S. Bawa. 1996. Assessment of plant biodiversity at a mid-elevation evergreen forest of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India. Current Science 71(5):379-392 [ER 2512]
Geography
Country: India

State: Tamil Nadu


Coordinate: 8° 32' N, 77° 24' E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Geography comments: "near Kakachi (1250 m) in the core area of KMTR"
altitudinal range of the transects is 1220 to 1550 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: wildlife protected area

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 22.5

WMT: 30.0

CMT: 15.0

MAP: 3000.0

Habitat comments: "dense primary forest... evergreen"
climate data are from Parthasarthy (1999, Biodiversity and Conservation)

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 5

Site area: 3.82

Sampling methods: belt transect,quadrat

Sample size: 1083 individuals

Years: 1992, 1993

Size min: 10

Basal area: 42.03

Sampling comments: "Five separate transects" with the first three each including "Ten plots of 10 m x 10 m" but "the first 500 m" in each transect was sampled "as a belt of 500 m x 10 m"; the other two transects were 990 and 940 m long and presumably also 10 m wide
total area of 3.82 ha is given in the text

Metadata
Sample number: 2814

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-11-22 14:44:14

Modified: 2017-11-22 03:44:14

Abundance distribution
42 species
8 singletons
total count 1083
geometric series index: 57.9
Fisher's α: 8.690
geometric series k: 0.8809
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9278
Shannon's H: 3.0230
Good's u: 0.9926
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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