Aya (2009)
Basic information
Sample name: Aya (2009)

Reference: T. V. Do, T. Sato, S. Saito, O. Kozan, H. Yamagawa, D. Nagamatsu, N. Nishimura, and T. Manabe. 2015. Effects of micro-topographies on stand structure and tree species diversity in an old-growth evergreen broad-leaved forest, southwestern Japan. Global Ecology and Conservation 4:185-196 [ER 2093]
Geography
Country: Japan


Coordinate: 32° 4' N, 131° 9' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "Aya town" in southwestern Japan (apparently meaning Aya in Higashimorokata District, Miyazaki Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu)
exact coordinate given by Tanouchi and Yamamoto (1995)
elevation 380 to 520 m

Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 17.4

MAP: 2509.0

Habitat comments: "old-growth evergreen broad-leaved forest"

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site length: 200

Site width: 200

Sampling methods: quadrat

Sample size: 5206 individuals

Years: 2009

Size min: 5

Basal area: 203.7

Sampling comments: "A 200 × 200 m2 permanent plot was divided into 400 subplots by using 10 m × 10 m grids"
earlier, incomplete data of Sato et al. (1999) for the same site are also reported
Tanouchi and Yamamoto (1995) report an earlier, also incomplete census of the same site

Metadata
Sample number: 2037

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-06-08 19:11:08

Modified: 2016-06-14 10:17:01

Abundance distribution
52 species
13 singletons
total count 5206
geometric series index: 80.0
Fisher's α: 8.030
geometric series k: 0.8659
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8443
Shannon's H: 2.3676
Good's u: 0.9975
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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