An Unaddressed Issue of Distortion

When the modified (square) plots are placed together, there are currently no precautions taken to insure that trees along the borders of adjacent plots are not unnaturally close to each other. Presently, a two trees located along the edges of their respective plots could be placed practically on top of each other.

It may be an important consideration in the future to devise a statistical procedure to test whether this creation of a pseudoplot will create anomalies which could effect later experiments made on these data.