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About the PPBio

The Biodiversity Research Program (PPBio) has three sections:

Biological collections – supports the growth and development of such biological collections as herbariums, museums and living collections

Biological Inventories – biodiversity surveys, collection sites, methods and data for long-term studies

Gentry Plots

Gentry 0.1 ha transect methodology, as modified by Brad Boyle

 

(excerpt from Boyle 1996, Chap. 1).

 

Large Size

Gentry plots have been widely used to describe the variation in diversity within and between geographical units of area. However, even within the same "type" of vegetation (e.g.

Integrated Surveys

Infrastructure access to grids or modules and accommodation for researchers are among the most costly items for any monitoring system. Independent studies by a series of researchers, each an expert in a particular taxon, results in an unnecessary duplication of effort (Lawson et al. 2005). This results in total costs orders of magnitude greater than required if the same surveys are integrated.

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