Surveyor consistency in presence/absence sampling for monitoring vegetation in a boreal forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 109-117

  Ringvall, Anna ^a   Petersson, Hans ^a   Ståhl, Göran ^a   Lämås, Tomas ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Ground vegetation; Observer bias; Plot frequency sampling; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INVENTORY CONTROL; SAMPLING; VEGETATION;

PRESENCE/ABSENCE (P/A) SAMPLING; SPECIES; SURVEYORS; VISUAL COVER;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MONITORING; VEGETATION COVER;

ERRORS; FORESTS; INVENTORIES; PLANTS; SAMPLING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 20444362746     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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