Puthupet (2002)
Basic information
Sample name: Puthupet (2002)

Reference: S. Baithalu, M. Anbarashan, and N. Parthasarathy. 2013. Two-decadal changes in forest structure and tree diversity in a tropical dry evergreen forest on the Coromandel Coast of India. Tropical Ecology 54(3):397-403 [ER 1121]
Geography
Country: India

State: Puducherry



Coordinate: 12° 3' N, 79° 52' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "15 km north of Puducherry town... on the Coromandel Coast"
altitude is for Puthupet and is based on K. Anil (2016, PhD thesis)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: disturbed forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: grazing,selective logging

MAT: 29.5

WMT: 34.0

CMT: 25.0

MAP: 1141.0

Habitat comments: "tropical dry evergreen forest... a 'sacred grove' or 'temple forest'... very close to human settlement (~0.2 km)... about 5 ha remain under forest cover" and there is "forest encroachment for expansion of temple structures, construction of road, cattle grazing, resource removal (fodder, firewood, medicinal plants, timber, etc.) and the impact of temple visitors by way of cooking inside the forest during festive occasions, vehicle parking and solid waste dumping (polythene, glass bottles, etc.)"
the climate is "tropical dissymmetric" with two monsoons and a March-May dry season

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site area: 1

Sample size: 1338 individuals

Size min: 10

Basal area: 34.5

Sampling comments: "two contiguous 0.5 ha (1 ha) permanent plots (200 m × 50 m)"
per-ha data are also reported for 1992 and 2012; the 1992 data apply to two 1 ha plots but are rounded to the nearest integer, so they are useless

Metadata
Sample number: 1641

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-06-16 20:48:02

Modified: 2017-11-09 04:24:41

Abundance distribution
29 species
5 singletons
total count 1338
geometric series index: 43.9
Fisher's α: 5.226
geometric series k: 0.7905
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6743
Shannon's H: 1.7177
Good's u: 0.9963
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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