An approach for computing the correlations of species richness values obtained from nested and non-nested sampling schemes is described. The correlations obtained are used to construct species accumulation curves for the Carolina Vegetation Survey data set using the log Arrhenius, Gleason, and Arrhenius models. These models are then used to predict the richness at the 400 m2 scale, a value outs...

Recent advances in the field of plant community phylogenetics and invasion phylogenetics are mostly based on plot-level data, which do not take into consideration the spatial arrangement of individual plants within the plot. Here we use within-plot plant coordinates to investigate the link between the physical distance separating plants, and their phylogenetic relatedness. We look at two vegeta...

Ranked set sampling is applicable whenever ranking of a set of sampling units can be done easily by a judgement method or based on the measurement of an auxiliary variable on the units selected. In this work, we consider ranked set sampling, in which ranking of units are done based on measurements made on an easily and exactly measurable auxiliary variable X which is correlated with the study v...

Background There is a great need for simple and inexpensive methods to quantify ammonia emissions in multi-plot field trials. However, that meet these criteria have be thoroughly validated. In the calibrated passive sampling approach, acid traps placed center of quadratic plots absorb ammonia, enabling relative comparisons between plots. To emissions, trap samplings are scaled by means transfer...

Precision agriculture technologies have potential for improving soil fertility evaluation and nutrient management. Global positioning systems (GPS), yield monitors, various forms of remote sensing, geographical information system (GIS) software, and variable rate technology are available to producers. Intensive soil sampling, crop scouting, and other practices complete the new technological pac...

We examine the relationship between disturbance regime and plot size for woody biomass estimation in a midwestern old-growth deciduousforestfrom 1926 to 1992. Analysis was done on the core 19.6 ac of a 50. I ac forest in which every tree 4 in. dbh and greater has been tagged and mapped since 1926. Five windows of time are compared-1926, 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1992. The most ejficient plot sizes r...