Original Articles

Towards a technique for determining basal cover in tufted grasslands

Published in: African Journal of Range & Forage Science
Volume 10 , issue 2 , 1993 , pages: 77–81

DOI: 10.1080/10220119.1993.9638327

Author(s): M.B. Hardy , Republic of South Africa , N.M. Tainton Department of Grassland Science, Republic of South Africa

Keywords: Distance measures , monitoring , precision

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Abstract

Computer simulation, point‐based field sampling procedures, and step‐wise multiple linear regression were used to establish a relationship between the basal cover (BC) of a sample site and paired observations of the mean distance from a point to the nearest living tuft (D) and the mean basal diameter of the tufts (d). The model may be summarized as:

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