Permanent Plots AFERP conducts several long-term inventories. Overstory, sapling, seedling and herbaceous vegetation and light environment are sampled using nested permenant plots centered on 20 randomly selected gridpoints on a 50 m by 50 m grid (see figure below). Overstory sampling includes all woody plants greater than or equal to 9.5 cm dbh on a
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