Using statistical power analysis as a tool when designing a monitoring program: Experience from a large-scale Swedish landscape monitoring program

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 7279-7293

  Christensen, Pernilla ^a   Hedström Ringvall, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Field assessments; Fixed area plots; Landscape; National scale data; Stratified design

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; FIELD ASSESSMENT; FIXED AREA PLOTS; LANDSCAPE; LARGE-SCALE MONITORING; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NATIONAL SCALE DATA;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOOLS;

MONITORING;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; STAKEHOLDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; NATIONAL INVENTORY OF LANDSCAPES IN SWEDEN; POWER ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84881141924     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3100-z     Document Type: Article

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