Kahuzi-Biega National Park (secondary forest)
Basic information
Sample name: Kahuzi-Biega National Park (secondary forest)

Reference: J. Yamagiwa, A. K. Basabose, K. P. Kaleme, and T. Yumoto. 2008. Phenology of fruits consumed by a sympatric population of gorillas and chimpanzees in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. African Study Monographs 39:3-22 [ER 95]
Geography
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
State: Kivu

Coordinate: -2.16° S, 28.65° E
Basis of coordinate: estimated from map
Geography comments: "The study area covers about 30 km2 along the eastern border of the park at an altitude of 2, 050–2, 350 m"
Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: secondary forest
Protection: national/state park
Substrate: ground surface
MAT: 20.1
WMT: 20.6
CMT: 19.3
MAP: 1660.0
Dry months: 3
Habitat comments: JA: WMT and CMT measured off of graph in Yamagiwa and Basabose 2006
rainfall is consistently around or below 50 mm/mo during June, July, and August, which are the cold months, but otherwise always over 100 mm/mo (Yamagiwa and Basabose 2006)
Methods
Life forms: trees
Sites: 1
Site length: 3170.000
Site width: 20.000
Sampling methods: belt transect
Sample size: 1566
Years: 1994-2002
Days: 30
Minimum size: 10.0cm dbh
Basal area: 13.6250 per ha
Metadata
Sample: 233
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles
Created: 2013-03-25 10:55:42
Modified: 2018-06-03 12:35:00
Abundance distribution
40 species
7 singletons
total count 1566
extrapolated richness: 48.2
Fisher's α: 7.478
geometric series k: 0.8521
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8589
Shannon's H: 2.5890
Good's u: 0.9955
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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