The results of the three sampling strategies used in the virtual forest tutorial.
Based on the time spent sampling, the Distance Random sampling was the most efficient with 4 hours and 43 minutes, Area Systematic sampling took 12 hours and 37 minutes and Haphazard sampling took 12 hours and 48 minutes. For the common species, the most accurate sampling strategy was the Systematic sampling. The most accurate for rare species was the Random sampling strategy. The accuracy declined for the rare species for the haphazard sampling strategy. 24 was not a sufficient number of sample points to capture the number of species in this community. No it was not enough sample points to accurately estimate the abundance of these species. The accuracy for the haphazard sampling strategy changed for the common species and rare species. The systematic sampling strategy was more accurate compared to the 2 other strategies.
