Since our current efforts are taking a rather more quantitative direction, we’ve put up some additional background documentation that we hope will be useful, mostly accurate, or at least not flagrantly misleading.

• How Prairies Are Assessed With FQAs explains what FQA is, how it’s done, and some issues about doing it
• Monitoring and Measuring Plant Communities is a quick summary of methodological issues used by ecologists

Please post any corrections or additions in the comments sections! Thanks!