Vegetation survey in the steppic rangelands of Algeria.xlsx

A multi-site survey was conducted during the period of peak growth of vegetation (late April-early May) in 2014. We selected five homogeneous sites in grazing-excluded steppes and another five in freely grazed steppes. Within each site, three 200-m linear transects (30 transects in total) were carried out. Plant abundance and richness within each transect were estimated using the Point-Intercept Method, which consists of registering all species touching the nail every 20-cm intervals. The abundance of each species in each transect was estimated from the number of individuals recorded along the same transect