Table 5 Number of monitoring plots installed by December 2019, and minimum sample in order to estimate the mean of each Biozone within a 10% error of the mean for Vegetation cover, species richness and LFA Stability Index and within a 15% error for Interpatch length using Equation 2.

From: The MARAS dataset, vegetation and soil characteristics of dryland rangelands across Patagonia

Biozones

Monitoring plots installed

Minimum number of monitoring plots required

Vegetation cover

Species Richness

Interpatch length

LFA Stability index

Austral Monte Shrubland

65

50

43

28

28

Central Plateau

141

35

42

120

16

Dry Magellan Steppe

25

12

13

24

11

Golfo San Jorge shrubland

11

37

23

42

14

Humid Magellan Steppe

37

7

16

89

29

Junellia shrubland

33

9

36

16

8

Oriental Monte Shrubland

21

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Peninsula Valdez

2

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Subandean grasslands

27

36

96

62

17

West Plateaus shrublands

64

41

47

47

19

Total

426

227

316

428

142

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