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Originating in the 1920s as a sampling scheme for agricultural regulatory inspectors, the square root (Sqrt) of the lot size (N) + 1 was semiformalized in an unpublished report by the Association of ...

A procedure is suggested to eliminate dependency on the species-area curve, based on the view that the most important fact of plant distribution is the distribution of quantity of material as ...