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BOT 440/540 Field Methods in Vegetation Science

Online textbook

The goal of the course is to give you a firm understanding of the concepts and tools needed for describing, monitoring, and experimenting on vegetation. In this online textbook your will explore many aspects of field methods in vegetation science. By the end, you will be able to collect field data correctly and efficiently, and to tell if field data collected by others are valid.

Click HERE for much more information about the course structure, resources, and assignments.

The Chapters ...

  1. Background

  2. Defining objectives

  3. How to measure

  4. Data management

  5. Sampling designs

  6. Simple random sampling in the field

  1. Putting it to practice: How to conduct a vegetation study using sampling

  2. How much sampling is enough?

  3. Recognizing and overcoming obstacles to successful field studies in vegetation science

  4. More sampling designs (for BOT 540 students)

  5. Making comparisons
Logo Note: This is the online textbook for BOT 440/540 at Oregon State University. You are welcome to browse.  To understand the course material, however, requires tackling the assignments and responding as a student to comments.  Click HERE to contact the course instructor for information about registering for this course. OSU

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