PhD Thesis, 2007 - University College Cork

Chapter 3
Materials and Methods
Figure 3.2: part of the study site where the vegetation was surveyed. The grid
design followed in the survey was set up along a fence located in the eastern part of
the bog. The grid consisted of 10 transects (marked with a T in the figure). Each
grid point along the transect was defined by a progressive number following the
transect number, as indicated for transect 1 (1T). EC tower is the location of the
eddy covariance tower.
The vegetation survey was carried out between the 10 th and the 31 st of August 2005
using a grid design with a 150 m interval (Figure 3.2). The grid was set up along
the eastern fence bordering the restoration area, where ten transects had their origin
points. The grid was composed of 42 grid points. At each grid point, 8 sample plots
were radially placed at a random distance between 1 and 3 m. In total 336 sample
plots were surveyed by estimating the projection cover of each plant species (%)
inside 0.3 × 0.3 m quadrats.
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