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Appendix

Appendix A: A figure showing the location of sampling units within each treatment.
Ecological Archives A021-026-A1.

Appendix B: A table showing observed mean cover, constancy, and required sample size for each sampling design, and time-to-sample estimates for grouped vegetation variables and for individual species. Ecological Archives A021-026-A2.

Appendix C: Proof of unbiasedness of the Strip Adaptive Cluster Sampling (SACS) Estimator.
Ecological Archives A021-026-A3.

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