Method / resourcemodel-written summary

A cross-wire sighting tube minimized pin-thickness errors, but intertangled foliage requires caution.

A claim from The use of point quadrats for the analysis of heathland · 1955

Method / resourceobservedoriginal resultmixedmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

A cross-wire sighting tube minimized pin-thickness errors, but intertangled foliage requires caution.

Taxon
heathlandt0
Treatment
cross-wire sighting tubee0
Outcome
Thesee0
Direction
minimizede0
Comparator
intertangling of the foliagee0

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Verbatim

e0

“These can be minimized by the use of a cross-wire sighting tube, but an experiment shows that caution must be exercised in using this device because of the intertangling of the foliage of the various species”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 681–888
t0

“heathland”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 46–55

Title

The use of point quadrats for the analysis of heathland

RE Winkworth Australian Journal of Botany 1955. doi:10.1071/bt9550068

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