CTFS

Mudumalai plot
  • Species list
  • Species abundance for trees >=1 cm dbh
  • Species abundance for trees >=10 cm dbh
  • Species growth and mortality
  • Topography map
  • Mudumalai Plot description
  • Bibliography
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    In 1988, a Forest Dynamics Plot was set up in Mudumalai Game Reserve in the eastern foothills of the Western Ghat Mountains of Southern India by the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and STRI. The Mudumalai forest is seasonal semi-evergreen lowland forest, typical of the lowland dry teak forest of the Indian subcontinent. Mudumalai is much less diverse than the other Forest Dynamics Plots surveyed to date, with 76 species and about 26,000 stems. The forest is an open-canopy woodland with grass cover that is subject to nearly annual fires and to browsing by large herds of elephants. A major focus, with significance for forest management practices through much of India, is the impact of fire and elephants on forest regeneration. The plot is recensused every year, although diameter measurements are not taken during every census. Remeasurement censuses have occurred in 1992 and 1997.

    Year Initiated

    Plot Size

    Latitude-Longitude
    & Altitude

    Rainfall & Dry Season

    Species & Trees

    1988

    50 ha

    11.5989 - 76.5338
    980-1120 M

    1250 mm
    6 mos

    72 spp
    25,500 trees