Preferred term
sampling method
Definition
- The method used to sample an ecological variable, an ecosystem feature, a population
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- air sampling
- biomass measurement
- collector
- conductivity temperature depth
- counting of individuals
- cylinder sampling
- dry deposition: filters / passive samplers / denuders
- frame method
- line transect
- litter trap
- online survey
- passive monitoring
- point frame method
- point intercept method
- point transect
- probe
- proxy
- sample design
- sample size
- sampling effect
- sampling strategy
- saturation extract method
- stratified random sampling
- stratified sampling
- suction cup
- survey
- transect (line intercept sampling)
- vegetation mapping
- vegetation relevé
- wet deposition: open polyethylene collectors
Note
- [controlled by ] Giorgio Matteucci , 23/05/2013" , "[source of definition ] Expert
Contributor
- nsb@ceh.ac.uk@ceh.ac.uk
Creator
- herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20105