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For this blog I looked at haphazard, systematic and random along with area-sample method and distance-sample method. While looking at the virtual forest tutorial I determined that the fastest way to do the sampling was with the haphazard distance method. This method could say several hours in sampling time.
When comparing the percentage error of the different strategies for the most common and rarest species the accuracy did change with species abundance. I found that using the random/systematic area method of sampling to have the lowest percent error the majority of the time. However, there were two different sample of the most common species for the different sites that had a lower percent error using the distance haphazard sampling method.
