Where are my quadrats? Positional accuracy in fieldwork

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 576-584

  Dodd, Mike ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; DGPS; GPS; Long term experiment; Measurement techniques; Monitoring; Succession; Surveying; Total station; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865585581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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