Work plan to get all the quadrat names standardized:
1) go through and test if the length of unique quadrat names is the same across years (if so - they all share names, if not - they either have different names or there are different quadrats sampled)
2) Make a master of all the quadrats ever sampled
3) Make a link column in the master of alternative names of the quadrat (make as many link columns as are necessary)
4) Associate each quadrat with a treatment (do this by looking at years that have treatment values and all the quadrats - may need to infer some based on the year and vegetation (e.g., if all bare in 2005, it was a burned plot)
Work plan to get all the quadrat names standardized:
1) go through and test if the length of unique quadrat names is the same across years (if so - they all share names, if not - they either have different names or there are different quadrats sampled)
2) Make a master of all the quadrats ever sampled
3) Make a link column in the master of alternative names of the quadrat (make as many link columns as are necessary)
4) Associate each quadrat with a treatment (do this by looking at years that have treatment values and all the quadrats - may need to infer some based on the year and vegetation (e.g., if all bare in 2005, it was a burned plot)