Survey of Bamboos, Canes and Reeds

This paper deals with some of the feasible sampling methods for the survey of bamboos, canes and reeds. In general two methods appear to be promising. In either case the first step consists in stock mapping the forest area and selecting a stratified sample of units for field enumeration. The actual field enumeration in the case of bamboos may be (1) using line plots of suitable size depending on the density of the area and enumerating all culms within the plots with subsidiary observations in a sub-sample on clump size for management purposes or (2) in low density areas or if the units are small by complete enumeration of clumps and enumeration of culms from 2 randomly selected clumps from sets of 40 clumps. The promising method for the survey of canes and reeds is a low intensity line plot sampling.

An outline of the scheme of pilot surveys proposed for bamboos, reeds and canes is
given and the cooperation of the States requested.