Case Study
Monitoring Shifts in Plant Diversity in Response to Climate Change
Improved sampling designs are needed to detect, monitor, and predict plant migrations and plant diversity changes caused by climate change and other human activities. This chapter provides a methodology based on multi-scale vegetation plots established across forest ecotones to monitor changing patterns of plant diversity, invasion of non-native plant species, and plant migrations at landscape scales. The methods are applied in the forests of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Keywords: long-term studies, ecotones, vegetation transects, canonical correspondence analysis, Rocky Mountain National Park
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