The Line-Intercept Method: A Tool for Introductory Plant Ecology Laboratories

 

John Cummings and Denny Smith

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2001, Volume 22

Abstract

This ABLE major workshop took participants to Bogg’s Rock, a granitic flatrock community that is in the early serial stages of succession. The line-intercept method of sampling was employed to allow the rapid characterization of the community structure. After species composition was defined, a simple statistical procedure was used to test one of several factors that might be controlling species distribution.

Keywords:  vegetation sampling, sampling techniques, transition zones, transect sampling, plant community structure

Clemson University (2000)