Lecture 3: Vegetation Sampling - Alaska Geobotany Center
Lecture 3: Vegetation Sampling - Alaska Geobotany Center
Lecture 3: Vegetation Sampling - Alaska Geobotany Center
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Advantages and disadvantages of point-intercept<br />
methods <br />
• Advantages <br />
– objec@ve <br />
– confidence in values (accurate & precise) <br />
– repeatable <br />
• Disadvantages <br />
– @me consuming <br />
– emphasizes most common plants <br />
“best suited to applica=ons such as mine permit baselines and tes=ng for <br />
revegeta=on success, where maximum confidence in absolute cover and <br />
repeatability is paramount and informa=on on the full range of individual <br />
species' cover values is not.” (Buckner web site)
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