SAMPLING THEORY USING VIRTUAL FORESTS Warren
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This week’s exercise explores the fundamentals of sampling theory using virtual forests. Two Pennsylvania old-growth forests were digitized enabling you to employ haphazard, systematic, and random sampling methods while investigating sampling protocols based on sampling areas versus distances. As you sample these virtual forests, you will discover that the efficiencies of sampling methods vary for different types of natural communities and that species differ in spatial distribution. Finally, you will determine the species diversity of both virtual forests and will make predictions about their successional trends. The obvious advantage of this simulation model is that you can quickly sample a forest community using different sampling criteria and methodologies.
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