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Grassland and Forest Understory Vegetation Monitoring: An Introduction to Field Methods

Don Gayton    

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Quantitative methodologies of grassland and forest understory vegetation monitoring are introduced and compared. Visual cover estimates, line intercept, point intercept, belt transect, basal area and biomass monitoring methods are explained from a field perspective. An annotated bibliography is attached.

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