Puyankutty Forest
Basic information
Sample name: Puyankutty Forest

Reference: P. R. Arun and P. A. Azeez. 2003. On the butterflies of Puyankutty forests, Kerala, India. Zoos' Print Journal 18(12):1276-1279 [ER 814]
Geography
Country: India

State: Kerala


Coordinate: 10° 5' N, 76° 50' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text as range

Geography comments: "along the Puyankutty River and its tributaries"
coordinate is the midpoint of ranges stated in text

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 21.0

MAP: 4500.0

Habitat comments: "a mosaic of moist deciduous, semi-evergreen, low elevation evergreen and riverine forests"
climate data based on : MAP 3800 to 5200, "temperature varies between" 13 and 29 (presumably meaning the daily min/max)

Methods
Life forms: butterflies

Sites: 7

Site length: 7000

Site width: 10

Sampling methods: belt transect,visual

Sample size: 318 individuals

Years: 1999

Days: 7

Sampling comments: "seven random locations" surveyed during a "week" using "standard transect counting method... while walking along the selected transect route of 1km, in each of the seven selected locations"; transects were 5 m on a side

Metadata
Sample number: 1163

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2014-09-21 18:50:05

Modified: 2014-09-21 08:57:35

Abundance distribution
32 species
14 singletons
total count 318
geometric series index: 68.2
Fisher's α: 8.873
geometric series k: 0.8723
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8956
Shannon's H: 2.6376
Good's u: 0.9560
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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