| Squally Beach Year 5 Riparian Cover | ||||||||||||
| Years 1, 3, and 5 (2006) Riparian Development at Squally Beach – Cover | ||||||||||||
| Cover Type | Year 1 (2002) | Year 3 (2004) | Year 5 (2006) | |||||||||
| Unbiased Average Quadrat Canopy Cover | 90% Confidence Interval | Year 3 Targets | Unbiased Average Quadrat Canopy Cover | 90% Confidence Interval | Year 5 Targets | Stratified Mean (Standard Estimate) | Stratified Mean (Bootstrap Estimate) | 95% Confidence Interval (Bias-Corrected Bootstrap Estimate) | ||||
| Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | Lower | Upper | |||||||
| Bound | Bound | Bound | Bound | Bound | Bound | |||||||
| NATIVE | ||||||||||||
| Herbs & Forbs | 38.7% | 22.2% | 55.1% | >70% | 105.6% | 39.5% | 171.8% | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shrubs | 3.2% | 0.9% | 5.4% | >30% | 65.4% | 0.0% | 148.5% | >50% | 13.3% | 13.2% | 7.4% | 18.8% |
| Trees | 2.7% | 0.9% | 4.4% | >25% | 101.9% | 37.8% | 165.9% | >40% | 63.7% | 63.7% | 49.5% | 77.6% |
| TOTAL NATIVE | 13.5% | 3.0% | 23.9% | 117.9% | 77.7% | 158.2% | 77.0% | 77.3% | 59.5% | 92.5% | ||
| TOTAL NNI | 38.1% | 21.8% | 54.5% | <2% | 102.1% | 75.4% | 128.8% | <5% | 20.5% | 20.5% | 10.9% | 30.4% |
| n/a = Not assessed | ||||||||||||
| Note: | ||||||||||||
| It is not appropriate to compare directly the results from various years because the estimates were calculated differently. Also note that the Years 1 and 3 results included herbs and forbs in the totals, while herbs and forbs were not a monitoring component in Year 5. | ||||||||||||