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'How To' Guide For Synthesizing Nerrs Marsh Monitoring Data, David M. Burdick
'How To' Guide For Synthesizing Nerrs Marsh Monitoring Data, David M. Burdick
Jackson Estuarine Laboratory
The purpose of this guide is to provide a user-friendly and informative guide on ‘How to’ synthesize salt marsh data from theNational Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRs). In this guide, we outline and detail the steps taken from requesting/cataloguing data to summarizing these data through visual and statistical analysis. These methods can be used at a single or multiple site(s) as well as over multiple years. Though this guide is specific to NERRs and focuses on plant community data, it may also be useful for other monitoring parameters and programs to guide protocol design and analyses. Here, we conduct a …
A Guide To Integrate Plant Cover Data From Two Different Methods, David M. Burdick, Chris R. Peter
A Guide To Integrate Plant Cover Data From Two Different Methods, David M. Burdick, Chris R. Peter
Jackson Estuarine Laboratory
There is a lack of consensus on how to monitor (measure) plant cover in tidal marshes. Multiple methods exist to estimate plant cover, which can confound interpretation when making comparisons across methods. Here, we provide a novel and more accurate approach, building off of traditional data transformations designed to integrate the two most common methods: Point Intercept and Ocular Cover.