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The three sampling strategies used in the virtual forest were haphazard, random, and systematic. Haphazard was the fastest of the three methods (estimated time of 5 hours and 17 minutes), random being moderate in terms of time (estimated 5 hours and 44 minutes), and systematic being the slowest of the methods (estimated 14 hours and 33 minutes). It is safe to assume that haphazard sampling has the fastest sampling time due the limited travel between sample points.
The two most common species in my sampling scenario where the Red Maple and the Chestnut Oak. These two species accuracy (in terms of percent error) were greater than the species that were less commonly sampled.
While doing trying multiple sampling techniques, it was relevant that the use of random sampling posed the least amount of percent error, and this could be do to the fact that there is very little/no overlapping in the sampling plots.
