Module 2 - Plant Diversity, Sampling Area, and Island Biogeography

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Module 2 - Plant Diversity, Sampling Area, and
Island Biogeography

• SEE-U Brazil 2001

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Flora Species

• We identified and counted the frequency of 27
  species found within our 4m by 4m quadrant.
• We identified an additional 15 species within the
  8m X 8m quadrant.
• An additional 10 species were found in the area
  proximate to our 8m X 8m quadrant.

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Flora Density and Abundance
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Flora Types

• Floral species were divided into the following
  life forms trees, shrubs, vines, grasses and
  herbs.
• The distribution of these forms in respect to the
  total number of species is

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Conclusions

• We dealt with two levels of diversity number of
  life forms and number of species.
• The number of life forms increases quadratically
  as the area increases.