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A field manual for describing terrestrial ecosystems.

ISBN: 9780772663566 (print)
ISBN: 9780772663573 (pdf)
Physical Description: 300 p. : ill ; 20 cm.
Edition: 2nd. ed.
Publisher: Victoria, BC : B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range, c2010.

British Columbia. Ministry of Forests and Range. (Author). British Columbia. Ministry of Environment. (Added Author).

Summary:

a Designed to assist surveyors in the completion of the Ecosystem Field Forms, including site, soil, vegetation, mensuration, wildlife habitat assessment, tree attributes for wildlife, and coarse woody debris data forms. These are a series of forms for the collection of ecological data in British Columbia. The manual is organized by section, one for each data form called EcosystemFieldForms(FS882) and are numbered as follows: Site Description FS882(1) SITE; Soil Description FS882(2) SOIL; Vegetation FS882(3) VEG; Mensuration FS882(4) MENS; Wildlife Habitat Assessment FS882(5) WHA; Tree Attributes for Wildlife FS882(6) TAW; Coarse Woody Debris FS882(7) CWD;References REF; Ground Inspection (included as an insert) GIF. The forms are designed to be used in various inventories, e.g., ecosystem classification, terrestrial ecosystem mapping, and wildlife habitat assessment. Not all the data fields on all the forms will be completed on every sample plot. Rather, project objectives determine which forms and fields need to be completed.