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Botany Glen (Plot 3)
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Basic information
Sample name: Botany Glen (Plot 3)

Reference: A. L. Stonehouse, K. S. Badger, D. G. Ruch, and P. E. Rothrock. 2003. A floristic inventory and description of the structure and composition of the plant communities of Botany Glen, Grant County, Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 112(2):135-159 [ER 2502]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Indiana


Coordinate: 40.47° N, -85.58° W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: an "18 ha parcel" within a 77 ha former "homestead" in "south-central Grant County" within "SE 3 Sec. 11 and NE 3 Sec. 14, R8E, T23N"
the average elevation of the county is "approximately 845 feet" based on Hurst et al. (Soil Survey of Grant County)

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 10.5

WMT: 23.4

CMT: -3.1

MAP: 917.0

Dry months: 10

Habitat comments: climate data are for Marion in Grant County and are from Hurst et al. (Soil Survey of Grant County)
MAT, CMT (February), and WMT (July) are 26.4, 74.2, and 50.9ยบ F; MAP Is 36.12 inches; rainfall is more than 3.94 inches (= 100 mm) in May and June only

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 4

Site area: 0.283

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 238 individuals

Years: 2001 - 2002

Size min: 5

Basal area: 29.3

Sampling comments: "four circular subplots arranged linearly with center points 40 m apart" that were sampled "within 15 m of the plot centers" (i.e., a total of 2827.433 m2 was inventoried)

Metadata
Sample number: 2787

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-11-18 11:26:47

Modified: 2017-11-18 00:26:47

Abundance distribution
22 species
5 singletons
total count 238
extrapolated richness: 36.0
Fisher's α: 5.915
geometric series k: 0.8098
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8277
Shannon's H: 2.2744
Good's u: 0.9791
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Current reference: Shotwell 1968 (ER 3992)