Marapamanda
Basic information
Sample name: Marapamanda

Reference: D. Walker. 1966. Vegetation of the Lake Ipea Region, New Guinea Highlands: I. Forest, grassland and garden. Journal of Ecology 54(2):503-533 [ER 17]
Geography
Country: Papua New Guinea

State: Western Highlands District

County: Lake Ipea

Coordinate: 5° 24' S, 143° 24' E
Latlng basis: stated in text

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Environment
Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Substrate: ground surface

Disturbance: selective logging

MAT: 14.6

WMT: 15.3

CMT: 13.9

MAP: 2567.5

Habitat comments: climate data based on Wabag (temperature) and average of Wabag and Laiagam (precip), but temperature values lowered by 2º because local temperatures are said to be "about 2º C lower" than at Wabag

Methods
Life forms: trees

Sites: 1

Site area: 0.075

Sampling methods: line transect, quadrat

Sample size: 194 individuals

Net or trap nights: 0

Size min: 2.5

Basal area status: not stated

Sampling comments: "fifteen rectangular plots in three rows, each of five plots" that were 10 x 5 m
minimum dbh is somewhere "under 5 cm"; 2.5 cm is a guess based on the fact that the next size class is 5 - 10 cm

Metadata
Sample no: 75

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: Albert Garcia Selles

Created: 2013-02-12 15:37:09

Modified: 2014-07-17 05:52:20

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
20 species
7 singletons
total count 194
geometric series index: 38.1
Fisher's α: 5.595
geometric series k: 0.8148
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8479
Shannon's H: 2.2296
Good's u: 0.964
Register
Elaeocarpus sphaericus 4
Quintinia cf. ledermannii 1
Elaeocarpus polydactylus 3
Ilex archiboldiana 2
Levieria sp. 6
Litsea sp. 5
2
Opocunonia nymanii 12
Polyosma sp. 2
Syzygium sp. 1
Timonius sp. 4
Weinmannia urdanetensis 1
Eurya cf. tigang 1
Pandanus sp. 38
Perrottetia alpestris 13
Pittosporum ramiflorum 1
Rapanea sp. 1
3
Cyatheaceae indet.35
Rutaceae indet.1
Selaginellaceae indet.14
Family indet.49
7