Effects of rooted and shoot sampling schemes on species richness and species- area curves
Journal: Unicam Scientific Publications (University of Camerino)
Year: 2015

Background&amp;amp;Aims:There are two different approaches to record presences of species in a plot: rooted (the plant roots in the sampling unit) and shoot (overlapping with the sampling unit) presence. However it was demonstrated theoretically that the different recording scheme swill lead to differences in richness counts and different shapes of species-area relationships (SARs), this aspect is not generally acknowledged in ecology. The aims of our study are to quantify how big the difference