A total of 11 equidistant transects oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the channel were established throughout the reach, with wetted channel width (m) measured at each transect.
Water depth (cm), water velocity (cm/s), and percent substrate type (bedrock, boulder, cobble, gravel, sand, and silt) were measured at five points across each transect.
Water-extractable C, microbial biomass C, and total C and N were measured at each point along the transects.
(c) Measured at 1-m intervals along the transect line.
We then used linear regression to compare each landscape metric to bird species richness measured at the level of the whole transect.
Top-of-canopy height (TCH) was measured at 1.1 m spatial resolution in systematically collected, national LiDAR sampling transects covering a total of 391,857 ha throughout Panama (Figure 1).
Top-of-canopy height (TCH) was measured at 1.1 m spatial resolution in systematically collected, national LiDAR sampling transects covering a total of 391,857 ha throughout Panama.
Soil properties were measured at several depths at a 10 m spacing along north south (N S) and west east (W E) transects through severely eroded, moderately eroded and non-eroded sites.
In March 2010, two transects (6 and 5, one at each ridge) were re-visited and snow depth measured at each point.
The measured transect originates at the shoreline at 5°26′32.5″N and 95°14′22.8″E.
