A range of teacher professional learning programs will be developed to accompany the Biodiversity of the Western Volcanic Plains online outreach...
- Plant quadrats are one of the main techniques for surveying vegetation.
- Quadrats should be located randomly.
- To ensure that a survey includes plants from different growing conditions (e.g. rocky areas, drainage lines), a stratified, random sampling technique should be used.
Quadrats of 10 m x 10 m size are recommended for grasslands.
Plant surveys conducted in spring when plants are flowering will provide more accurate results than surveys conducted in winter.
Stratified random sampling takes into account different areas (or strata) within a site. These strata are sampled separately from the main part of the site.
