We updated the project today to add a few more bells and whistles for keen folk that want to add more information about their seedling plots.
The project was initially set up defining seedlings as any juvenile woody plant <45 cm (18 inches) high. We've now added a field, "Woody seedling height class (cm)", so you can separately enter seedlings of different height classes. These follow the standard categories used by New Zealand's National Vegetation Survey protocol (<15 cm, 16–45 cm, 46–75 cm, 76–105 cm, 106–135 cm). If you use these, add one observation for each height class represented in your plot for each species. Otherwise, you can keep this set at the default value of "not recorded".
There's also now a field "Inside plot?" that's set to "yes" by default but you should change it to "no" when you add observations of species you ...more ↓
We updated the project today to add a few more bells and whistles for keen folk that want to add more information about their seedling plots.
The project was initially set up defining seedlings as any juvenile woody plant <45 cm (18 inches) high. We've now added a field, "Woody seedling height class (cm)", so you can separately enter seedlings of different height classes. These follow the standard categories used by New Zealand's National Vegetation Survey protocol (<15 cm, 16–45 cm, 46–75 cm, 76–105 cm, 106–135 cm). If you use these, add one observation for each height class represented in your plot for each species. Otherwise, you can keep this set at the default value of "not recorded".
There's also now a field "Inside plot?" that's set to "yes" by default but you should change it to "no" when you add observations of species you found outside one of your square metre plots. This is useful when you're adding observations of nearby adult plants that could be the parents of your seedlings.
Speaking of parents, there's also now the field "Distance to plot (m)" which you can use to add the distance (in metres) to your observation of the nearest possible parent of a species. Be sure to add any observations of parent plants as separate observations from seedlings.
We've also added "Canopy height class", with a series of height categories borrowed (again) from the New Zealand's National Vegetation Survey protocol (0.3–2 m, 2–5 m, 5–12 m, 12–25 m, >25 m), This is completely optional, but handy to give people an idea of how tall the vegetation is where your plots are.
Lastly, we've added the standard percentage cover fields for stating how much vegetation (ferns, herbs, etc.), mosses, liverworts, algae, leaf litter (fallen leaves), bare ground, and rock are in your plot. These are optional details but quite helpful for describing how suitable your plot is for woody seedlings.
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Woody seedlings in a square metre
