Reproducibility of species lists, visual cover estimates and frequency methods for recording high-mountain vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1035-1047

  Vittoz, Pascal ^a   Bayfield, Neil ^b,f   Brooker, Rob ^f   Elston, David A ^c   Duff, Elizabeth I ^c   Theurillat, Jean Paul ^d,e   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d Ctr Alpien de Phytogeographie   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f Celtic Environment   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Biodiversity monitoring; Observer bias; Permanent plot; Pseudo turnover; Sampling error; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; BRYOPHYTE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LICHEN; MOUNTAIN REGION; RECORD; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALPS; CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS; GRAMPIAN HIGHLANDS; SCOTLAND; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 78049283887     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01216.x     Document Type: Article

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