grid analysis of pattern The detection of pattern using a contiguous grid of quadrats, rather than random sampling with a given quadrat size. By blocking adjacent quadrats in pairs, fours, eights, etc., the data may be analysed using increasingly larger quadrat sizes. This is important since the detection of pattern relates to the quadrat size used, with the most marked demonstration of contagion occurring when the quadrat size is approximately equal to the clump area (i.e. the size of the clumps). When the presence of contagion is not immediately obvious, detection of the scale of non-randomness (i.e. the quadrat size at which it is evident) provides very useful information, as it may suggest the likely cause of the clumping.

grid analysis of pattern The detection of pattern using a contiguous grid of quadrats, rather than random sampling with a given quadrat size. By blocking adjacent quadrats in pairs, fours, eights, etc., the data may be analysed using increasingly larger quadrat sizes. This is important since the detection of pattern relates to the quadrat size used, with the most marked demonstration of contagion occurring when the quadrat size is approximately equal to the clump area (i.e. the size of the clumps). When the presence of contagion is not immediately obvious, detection of the scale of non-randomness (i.e. the quadrat size at which it is evident) provides very useful information as it may suggest the likely cause of the clumping.

grid analysis of pattern The detection of pattern using a contiguous grid of quadrats, rather than random sampling with a given quadrat size. By blocking adjacent quadrats in pairs, fours, eights, etc., the data may be analysed using increasingly larger quadrat sizes. This is important since the detection of pattern relates to the quadrat size used, with the most marked demonstration of contagion occurring when the quadrat size is approximately equal to the clump area (i.e. the size of the clumps). When the presence of contagion is not immediately obvious, detection of the scale of non-randomness (i.e. the quadrat size at which it is evident) provides very useful information as it may suggest the likely cause of the clumping.