Realm: Terrestrial
Climate: Tropical
Biome: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Central latitude: 21.934680
Central longitude: 101.250500
Duration: 6 years, from 2001 to 2006
898 records
211 distinct species
Across the time series
Phoebe lanceolata is the most frequently occurring species
Methods
The data comes from the National Field Scientific Observation and Research Station of Forest Ecosystem in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (101°16'E, 21°55'N), located at an altitude of 570 meters. The aggregated data were collected from six permanent plots. Plot 1 ((BNFZH01) is located in the original tropical seasonal rain forest (mature forest), located in the protected area; plot 2 (BNFFZ01) is located in the secondary forest restored after disturbance, in the middle and late stages of succession; plot 3 (BNFZQ02) is located in the secondary forest restored after the disturbance, in the early successional stage (young forest); plot 4 (BNFZQ03) is located in the secondary forest restored after the disturbance, , in the early successional stage (young forest); plot 5 (BNFZQ01) is located in the primary monsoon forest (mature forest); plot 6 (BNFZQ04) is located in the monsoon evergreen broad-leaved secondary forest, in the early succession stage. The area of plot 1 is 100*100 meters, and the area of plot 2 is 50*100 meters, while the area of plots 3-6 is 50*50 meters. To keep a consistent sampling effort, individual-based rarefaction was used to standardize data, that is 1/4 the number of individuals was randomly selected for plot 1, and 1/2 the number of individuals was randomly selected for plot 2. In the original document, there is no information on whether all areas of plots or only some subplots were investigated. For the CERN shrubs inventory, it is usually a big plot divided into subplots of 10*10 meters, and a quadrat of 5*5 meters within each subplot is used to survey shrubs. The number of individuals of each species was counted for each plot. Plots have data from multiple years from 2001 to 2006 (different across plots).
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