Beza Mahafaly Reserve (dry soils)
Basic information
Sample name: Beza Mahafaly Reserve (dry soils)

Reference: R. W. Sussman and A. Rakotozafy. 1994. Plant diversity and structural analysis of a tropical dry forest in southwestern Madagascar. Biotropica 26(3):241-254 [ER 45]
Geography
Country: Madagascar


Coordinate: 23° 30' S, 44° 40' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Geography comments: elevation 100 to 200 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 25.0

WMT: 34.0

MAP: 750.0

Habitat comments: "dry gallery forest"
June-August temperatures "range between 23ºC and 30ºC" but these figures apparently refer to daily highs because MAT is 25; this figure is consistent with the daily min/max range of 17.5/34.8 reported by Crowley et al. (2011)

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 25

Site area: 0.2

Sampling methods: line transect

Sample size: 432 individuals

Size min: 2.5

Sampling comments: JA: ten 50 x 2 m quadrats

Metadata
Sample number: 128

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-03-04 16:53:33

Modified: 2014-07-17 06:04:46

Abundance distribution
46 species
11 singletons
total count 432
geometric series index: 76.8
Fisher's α: 13.027
geometric series k: 0.9167
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9413
Shannon's H: 3.1835
Good's u: 0.9746
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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