SOP #09: Establishing and Marking Vegetation Monitoring Plots. Version 3.0. Pacific Island Network Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
Ainsworth A, Gross J, Akamine K. 2021. SOP #09: Establishing and Marking Vegetation Monitoring Plots. Version 3.0. Pacific Island Network Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities Monitoring Protocol. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Pacific Island Inventory and Monitoring Network, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii.
This SOP describes how to establish rotational and fixed plots for Pacific Island Network (PACN) focal terrestrial plant communities monitoring in the wet forest, subalpine shrubland, limestone forest, mangrove forest, and coastal strand community types. For the forest and shrubland communities, vegetation is sampled in large (20 x 50 m) plots. In coastal communities, vegetation is sampled in small plots (10 x 20 m) because these communities are smaller in size and linearly constrained. All plots are established using the same methodology with measuring tapes, but only the fixed plots are permanently marked for future sampling.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Ainsworth, Alison; Gross, Jacob; Akamine, Kathryn
- Date of Issue
- 2021-04-29
- Units
- AMME , HALE , HAVO , KAHO , KALA , NPSA , PACN , WAPA
- Keywords
- Fixed Plots, Focal Terrestrial Plant Communities, Monitoring, Rotational Plots