Evaluation of a Trace Plant  Density Score in Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) Vegetation Monitoring Data
The Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) program  employs a destructive harvest method for sampling aquatic vegetation whereby a rake is dragged ~1.5 m over the substrate and plant materials are retrieved.  The density of each species of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV), and of all species combined, are scored based …