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Title:	Plot size recommendations for biomass estimation in a midwestern old-growth forest
Author(s):	Spetich, Martin A.; Parker, George R
Date:	1998
Source:	Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 15(4): 165-168.
Description:	The authors examine the relationship between disturbance regime and plot size for woody biomass estimation in a midwestern old-growth deciduous forest from 1926 to 1992. Analysis was done on the core 19.6 ac of a 50.1 ac forest in which every tree 4 in. d.b.h. and greater has been tagged and mapped since 1926. Five windows of time are compared—1926, 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1992. The most efficient plot sizes requiring measurement of the least total area range from 0.02 to 1.6 ac. A small plot size was recommended after grazing disturbance, and a large size was recommended when mortality was high and acceptable error was low.
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