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MOJN database schema for Spring Vegetation protocol
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LPI Canopy Cover Type Clarification #20

Open HarpoMark opened 5 years ago

HarpoMark commented 5 years ago

The database currently only allows an LPI Canopy Cover type to be declared for one stratum. For instance, you cannot say woody debris was present in the bottom AND middle stratum. I believe the index is enforcing this and want to make sure it's a correct rule.

wright13 commented 5 years ago

I believe this is correct. I know that plant species only get recorded once per point except when one occurrence is dead and one is alive. I would double check with @hupp2it though.

hupp2it commented 5 years ago

This is correct. We discussed this a few times for IU, and we're deciding to follow the same strategy for SV. A species will only be recorded once for LPI, and it will be recorded in it's uppermost stratum. In your example, Mark, woody debris would be recorded in the middle stratum (also- yes, that is kind of a rare example, not sure how much woody debris we'd find more than 1 m above the ground).