Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol SOP 15: Deviations and Summary of Major Changes - Version 1.22
Cumberland Piedmont Network. 2023. Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol SOP 15: Deviations and Summary of Major Changes - Version 1.22. Cumberland Piedmont Network
This standard operating procedure (SOP) documents: Known deviations from established methods. Deviations are situations where data were collected in a manner that is substantially different from the methods documented in the SOPs used during a particular field season. Major changes in the protocol. Major changes are fundamental shifts in the way data are collected that cannot easily be rectified with earlier data. Major changes are not deviations, provided that the changes are documented in the SOPs. Ideally, any time there is a major change in methods the network will use both methods long enough to determine whether the results from the different methods are sufficiently correlated to allow old data to be corrected. In some cases (especially early in the use of the protocol), the small amount of data lost by the protocol change will not be worth the cost of overlapping methods.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Cumberland Piedmont Network
- Date of Issue
- 2023-12-13
- Publisher
- Cumberland Piedmont Network
- Units
- ABLI , CARL , CHCH , COWP , CUGA , CUPN , FODO , GUCO , KIMO , LIRI , MACA , NISI , RUCA , SHIL , STRI
- Keywords
- Cumberland Piedmont Network, Forest Monitoring, Vegetation Monitoring
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Forest/Woodland Communities