Application of Balanced Acceptance Sampling to an Intertidal Survey

Abstract

In ecological studies, the population of interest is often spread over a large area. In these studies, obtaining a sample with good spatial coverage is an important feature in the design of a survey. In most cases adjacent, or neighbouring, units are more similar than units further apart and the resulting spatial autocorrelation should be taken into account.

Keywords

• two dimensional systematic sampling
• balanced acceptance sampling
• quadrat
• crustacea
• spatial autocorrelation