Thanks a lot Gurcharan sir. I over read that he was to do grass survey so I delimited the size of the quadrat. Dear Mr. Suresh, it depends on the objective of your study if you can use line transects or quadrats. The percentage cover for trees is not good for vegetation analysis if you wish to do. If you wish to just see what dominant trees lies in the area then line transect may be useful. Line transects may be useful for detecting change, but then there also I always preferred quadrats of 10m x 10m or may be 10m radius circle. Line transect people tend to use because its easy. One more way is to do a point centre quadrat method. But all depends on your objectives !! R.Misra is good book for basics and you must read it. I think every biology student in India should read it. Another twoI would like to recommend would be Mueller - Dombois, D. and H. Ellenberg. 1974. Aims and methods of vegetation ecology. John Wiley & Sons, New York and Ludwig, J. A. and J. F. Reynolds. 1988. Statistical ecology: a primer on methods and computing. New York. John Wiley and Sons. I followed these a lot during my PhD work as I also worked on ecology for my thesis. Apart from these I did use other books too, but there is a big list. For MSWord is saying 'quadrat' as wrong, please right click and "add to the dictionary". Simple :). My apologies once again. Regards Pankaj
On Jan 10, 7:48 pm, Suresh Rana <[email protected]> wrote: > Respected Gurcharan Sir > > Thanks a lot for correction of the quadrat spelling. I have also > experienced the same thing and the reason behind this is Spelling > checker of MS Word shows quadrat as incorrect spelling and students > change it to quadrate which is shown as correct. > > Thanks and regards > Suresh Rana
