Sample name: Rio Cachoeira Natural Reserve (>100 years)

Reference: K. Geronazzo Martins, M. C. M. Marques, E. dos Santos, and R. Marques. 2015. Effects of soil conditions on the diversity of tropical forests across a successional gradient. Forest Ecology and Management 349:4-11 [ER 1124]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Protection: nature reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 21.0

MAP: 2500.0

Habitat comments: "a Cfa climate according to the Köppen classification, defined as being subtropical humid mesothermal" with "no dry season"
secondary forest at least 100 years old that was "subjected on to low-impact selective logging in the past" (i.e., effectively old growth)
MAT 20 to 22, MAP 2000 to 3000 mm

Life forms: trees

Sites: 3

Site area: 0.3

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 422 individuals

Size min: 4.8

Sampling comments: "three independently distributed replicates (~1000 m apart)" with each consisting of "a 1000-m2 (10 x 100 m)"
basal area is discussed and illustrated in graphs but no figures are given

Sample number: 1644

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-06-18 11:58:41

Modified: 2015-06-18 01:58:41