Use of permanent plots in monitoring plant populations

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-340

  Lesica, Peter ^a   Steele, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear mixed models; Monitoring; Sample size; Sampling design

Indexed keywords

PERMANENT PLOT; PLANT POPULATION; POPULATION MONITORING;

EID: 0031431076     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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