Paavo Yli-Vakkuri

A method for establishing small permanent sample plots for ecological studies

Yli-Vakkuri P. (1959). A method for establishing small permanent sample plots for ecological studies. Acta Forestalia Fennica vol. 68 no. 3 article id 7485. https://doi.org/10.14214/aff.7485

Abstract

Especially in experimantal ecological research it is used small sample plots that are inventoried consequently. The paper describes a method for establishing small sample plots, developed by the writer in 1956. In the method, the central point of the sample plot is marked with an iron skewer, and the marking of the area to be inventoried was accomplished with a circular frame that is movable. The frame was fitted to the skewer with an aperture that indicated the central point. The area of the frame was relatively small, 0,25 m². The sample plots were arbitarily placed at intervals from one another.

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Keywords
vegetation analysis; research methods; sample plot

Published in 1959

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