Bent Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Bent Creek

Sample aka: Rich Cove

Reference: P. R. Hannah. 1993. Composition and development of two Appalachian hardwood stands in North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 109(2):87-98 [ER 2066]
Geography
Country: United States

State: North Carolina


Coordinate: 35° 30' N, 82° 40' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "near Asheville" and "part of Vanderbilt's Pisgah Forest" and specifically "in Rich Cove"

Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Substrate: ground surface

WMT: 22.3

CMT: 2.3

MAP: 1200.0

Habitat comments: "Limit logging has occurred in the Bent Creek area since... 1925"; the area was "cleared" in 1879 and "pastured until 1902"
climate data are for the Bent Creek Experimental Forest and are from Keyser and Loftis (2013, Forestry)

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site area: 0.203

Sample size: 129 individuals

Size min: 10

Basal area: 37.08

Sampling comments: the "0.2 ha circular plot was located in an area of relatively uniform microtopography" (counts indicate that the actual area was 0.203 ha)

Metadata
Sample number: 2006

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-03-19 12:59:24

Modified: 2017-11-02 03:34:42

Abundance distribution
13 species
2 singletons
total count 129
extrapolated richness: 19.1
Fisher's α: 3.606
geometric series k: 0.7309
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8168
Shannon's H: 2.0315
Good's u: 0.9847
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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