Claim · model-written summary
Multipliers calculated from simulation data satisfactorily mimic the original multipliers of the dry weight rank method.
- Taxon
- grasslandt0
- Outcome
- mimic the original multipliers of DWRe7
- Direction
- satisfactorilye7
- Comparator
- original multipliers of DWRe7
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Verbatim
t0“Evaluation of the dry weight rank method for botanical analysis of grassland by means of simulation”
e7“Multipliers calculated from simulation data could satisfactorily mimic the original multipliers of DWR given by 't Mannetje & Haydock”
Title
Evaluation of the dry weight rank method for botanical analysis of grassland by means of simulation
J.H. Neuteboom; E.A. Lantinga; P.C. Struik Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 1998. doi:10.18174/njas.v46i3.484
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Method / resource The dry weight rank method works well with relatively small quadrats holding only a few plants, irrespective of horizontal vegetation structure.
- Method / resource In vegetation with patchy species growth, the dry weight rank method gives satisfactory results with large quadrats of tens of plants.
- Mechanism Minor species compete successfully for first, second and third ranks in patchy vegetation, which keeps the method working with large quadrats.
- Method / resource Only a certain degree of patchiness is necessary for the dry weight rank method to work.
- Recommendation A very small sampling quadrat, smaller than 1 dm2, could be used in recently sown grasslands.
- Method / resource The correction for missing ranks functions almost always perfectly, so the condition of at least three species per quadrat is not necessary.
- Recommendation The dry weight rank method is well suited for studying vegetation changes in old, floristically diverse grasslands.