Sentence examples for belt transect from inspiring English sources

A lure assisted, visual census, belt transect method has been developed and compared with the traditional visual census.

Within each grid, a belt transect of 0.5 ha (5 m × 1000 m) area was laid and all trees ≥30 cm girth at breast height (gbh) were enumerated.

We evaluated the performance of the Minnesota macrophyte-based IBI for two survey designs; a point intercept (PI) survey and a belt transect (BT) survey.

The vegetation was studied using the belt transect method, and transects of 500 m × 10 m were laid in each of the 349 selected grids of the 14 districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

We assessed annual relative habitat use of elk, deer, and cattle by counting elk and deer pellet groups and cattle pats (hereafter, pellet groups) encountered within 2 m of a straight line between shrubs used in browse surveys until we covered 100 m (i.e., a 2 × 100-m belt transect).

Within each belt transect, plots of 10.0 × 10.0 m were systematically established and replicated three times in a stratum at an interval of between 10.0 and 50.0 m along forest edge-interior gradient depending on the size of the forest fragment for assessment of environmental variables and tree species distribution and abundance.

Figure 1 Layout of 10 × 30 m belt transects for sampling biomass of riparian condition types.

Locations of imbedded 0.25 m quadrats are small squares (n = 6) within belt transects.

Belt transects were enumerated to assess the vegetation characteristics and fire effects in the landscape.

At each site, aspen seedlings were counted along five 50 m × 2 m belt transects.

Data on fish abundance and size were collected within randomly placed belt transects and roving surveys.