The Ecological Register: Red Hill

Red Hill

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Basic information

Sample name: Red Hill

Sample aka: Archbold Biological Station

Reference: R. L. Myers. 1985. Fire and the dynamic relationship between Florida sandhill and sand pine scrub vegetation. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 112(3):241-252 [ER 2117]

Geography

Country: United States

State: Florida

Coordinate: 27° 11' N, 81° 21' W

Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "at the southern end of the Lake Wales Ridge" and specifically "on the crest and north-facing slope of Red Hill"

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Environment

Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 27.5

CMT: 16.0

MAP: 1357.0

Habitat comments: "1.3 of sand pine scrub and 7.6 ha sandhill" forest that was completely burned in 1927
climate data are for the station and are from Abrahamson and Layne (2003, Ecology)

Methods

Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site area: 1.17

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 772 individuals

Years: 1983

Size min: 5

Basal area: 8.748

Sampling comments: an irregularly shaped but almost rectangular single plot (see Fig. 3)
early successional data for 1932 are also reported

Metadata

Sample number: 2090

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-06-14 21:03:29

Modified: 2016-06-14 11:08:43

Abundance distribution

8 species

0 singletons

total count 772

extrapolated richness: 8.2

Fisher's α: 1.244

geometric series k: 0.6758

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7752

Shannon's H: 1.6782

Good's u: 1.0000

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

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P. elliotti and P. palustris
Quercus laevis	227
Carya floridana	233
Quercus geminata	132
Pinus clausa	18
Quercus chapmanii	31
Quercus myrtifolia	24
Lyonia ferruginea	15

Current reference: Shotwell 1968 (ER 3992)