SAMPLING VEGETATION ATTRIBUTES - USDA

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SAMPLING VEGETATIONATTRIBUTESINTERAGENCY TECHNICAL REFERENCESupersedes BLM Technical Reference 4400-4, Trend Studies, dated May 1985Edited, designed, and produced by the Bureau of Land Management sNational Applied Resource Sciences CenterBLM/RS/ST-96/002+1730Sampling VEGETATION AttributesInteragency Technical ReferenceCooperative Extension Department of Agriculture Forest Service Natural Resource Conservation Service,Grazing Land Technology Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management 1996Revised in 1997, and 1999TABLE OF CONTENTSSAMPLING VEGETATION ATTRIBUTESInteragency Technical ReferenceBy (In alphabetical order)Technical Reference 1734-4copies available fromBureau of Land ManagementNational Business Box 25047Denver, Colorado 80225-0047Bill CoulloudonRangeland Management of Land ManagementPhoenix, ArizonaKris Eshelman (deceased)Rangeland Management of Land ManagementReno, NevadaJames GianolaWildhorse and Burro of Land ManagementCarson City, NevadaNed HabichRangeland Management of Land ManagementDenver ColoradoLee HughesEcologistBureau of Land ManagementSt.

Shrub character-ization is the collection of data on the shrub and tree component of a vegetation community. Attributes that could be important for shrub characterization are height, volume, foliage density, crown diameter, form class, age class, and total number of plants by species (density). Another important feature of shrub charac-

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