Sample name: Lopé Reserve Site 1

Sample aka: Lopé National Park

Reference: L. J. T. White. 1992. Vegetation history and logging disturbance: effects on rain forest in the Lope Reserve, Gabon (with special emphasis on elephants and apes). University of Edinburgh [ER 44]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: national/state park

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

WMT: 28.0

CMT: 23.6

MAP: 1532.0

Habitat comments: "Consistently low rainfall in July and August constitutes a "major dry season", which is a feature of the annual cycle, although the timing of its onset and its duration varies between years; December to February are generally relatively dry months, but no distinct second dry season can be defined" (p. 11)
"The forest had been logged once, 20-25 years previously, for one tree species, Aucoumea klaineana which was extracted at an intensity of about one tree" per ha
climate data are for the reserve and are from Tutin et al. (1991, Journal of Tropical Ecology)

Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site length: 5000

Site width: 1

Sampling methods: line transect

Sample size: 1039 individuals

Years: 1989-1991

Size min: 10

Basal area: 21.4051

Sampling comments: basal area for the top 10 species is 169.1 per 5 ha and this makes up 79% of the total; sites are 0.5 ha, so the total is divided by 10

Sample number: 79

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-02-13 12:48:15

Modified: 2017-11-11 07:40:13