Digitized images provide more accuracy and efficiency to estimate bryophyte cover

Bryologist

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-18

  Benavides, Juan C ^a,b   Sastre De Jesús, Inés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Braun Blanquet; Bryophyte cover; Digital image analysis; Ecological methods; GIS; Grid method; Neckeropsis; Objectivity

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; NECKEROPSIS; NECKEROPSIS DISTICHA;

EID: 61849155174     PISSN: 00072745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-112.1.12     Document Type: Article

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