An Evaluation of the Plant Density Estimator the Point-Centred Quarter Method (PCQM) Using Monte Carlo Simulation.

In the Point-Centred Quarter Method (PCQM), the mean distance of the first nearest plants in each quadrant of a number of random sample points is converted to plant density. It is a quick method for plant density estimation. In recent publications the estimator equations of simple PCQM (PCQM1) and h...

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Main Authors: Md Nabiul Islam Khan, Renske Hijbeek, Uta Berger, Nico Koedam, Uwe Grueters, S M Zahirul Islam, Md Asadul Hasan, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4919016?pdf=render