McCune, B/ Lesica, P 1992: The trade-off between species capture and quantitative accuracy in ecological inventory of lichens and bryophytes in forests in Montana. - The Bryologist95(3): 296-304. [RLL List # 149 / Rec.# 12651] Keywords: ECOLOGICAL INVENTORY/ ECOLOGY/ MONTANA/ SAMPLING METHODS
Abstract: 3 fig. 2 tab. ["We evaluated this trade-off for three strata of lichens and bryophytes in western Montana: branch epiphytes, trunk epiphytes, and ground layer. At one extreme, visually integrating a single large plot resulted in high species capture but low accuracy of cover estimates. At the other extreme, subsampling with many small plots, species capture was low but accuracy of cover estimates was higher for common species."]