Foret de Kirindy (N5)
Basic information
Sample name: Foret de Kirindy (N5)

Reference: J. U. Ganzhorn. 1995. Low-level forest disturbance effects on primary production, leaf chemistry, and lemur populations. Ecology 76(7):2084-2096 [ER 46]
Geography
Country: Madagascar


Coordinate: 20° 3' S, 44° 39' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: Studied area is located at 60 km north of Morondava (western Madagascar)
altitude is for the Foret de Kirindy and is from Olson and Ward (1996, Primate Report)

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

WMT: 31.4

CMT: 25.0

MAP: 721.0

Habitat comments: "dry deciduous forest"

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 3

Sampling methods: line transect

Sample size: 600 individuals

Sampled by: Centre de Formation Professionnelle Forestiere de Morondava (CFPF)

Years: 1988-1992

Seasons: wet or monsoon

Size min: 5

Sampling comments: "Trees were measured at sampling points spaced at 10-m intervals along three 240-m transects per area" (this apparently means the point centered quadrat method, so site area is indeterminate)

Metadata
Sample number: 130

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-03-05 09:36:51

Modified: 2017-11-10 03:45:23

Abundance distribution
44 species
15 singletons
total count 600
extrapolated richness: 83.4
Fisher's α: 10.938
geometric series k: 0.8769
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7537
Shannon's H: 2.2854
Good's u: 0.9750
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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