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
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "near Asheville" and "part of Vanderbilt's Pisgah Forest" and specifically "in Rich Cove"
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Climate and habitat
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)
climate data are for the Bent Creek Experimental Forest and are from Keyser and Loftis (2013, Forestry)
Methods
Life forms: trees
Site area: 0.200
Sample size: 129
Minimum size: 10.0cm dbh
Basal area: 37.0800 per ha
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: 2006
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2016-03-19 12:59:24
Modified: 2016-06-04 21:48:59
Abundance distribution
13 species
2 singletons
total count 129
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
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