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  • noun Plural form of quadrat.

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Examples

  • La nova Biblioteca compta amb un fons inicial de 7.500 documents i 43 títols de revista, i té una superfície tota de 290 metres quadrats.

    Inauguració de la Biblioteca Municipal d’El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort | [bauen] 2010

  • Preston included a gallery of examples in his 1962 paper: one species-area curve for birds of the East Indies, another curve for land vertebrates on islands in Lake Michigan, another curve for plant diversity on quadrats of grassland in England, and still others.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • They were concerned with the numbers of species on quadrats, wherever those quadrats might be located.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Preston included a gallery of examples in his 1962 paper: one species-area curve for birds of the East Indies, another curve for land vertebrates on islands in Lake Michigan, another curve for plant diversity on quadrats of grassland in England, and still others.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Gleason and Arrhenius, with their quadrats demarcated among plant communities on the landscapes of Michigan and Sweden, were studying samples.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • They were concerned with the numbers of species on quadrats, wherever those quadrats might be located.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • The units of area on which Gleason and Arrhenius measured species diversity were quadrats in that sense: artificially delineated plots within a larger area.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Every set of islands on which the species of reptiles and amphibians have been counted has its own curve; likewise every set of quadrats on which the plant diversity has been surveyed.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Gleason and Arrhenius, with their quadrats demarcated among plant communities on the landscapes of Michigan and Sweden, were studying samples.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • The units of area on which Gleason and Arrhenius measured species diversity were quadrats in that sense: artificially delineated plots within a larger area.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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