Living trees with mulch cover (count)
Definition
The number of tree individuals observed alive on a visit at a horizon whose mulch cover is well or slightly covered, never no cover. An outcome of care: mulch is applied at planting and renewed by the steward.
purpose
To show how much of the planting keeps its soil covered, per site, species and place, as the water-conservation practice the training teaches.
rationale
Mulch cover was the care practice KIA-Adapt found most often lapsed (A4 I.A.3.1.1); the observation records it on every living tree.
Classification
- Result level: Outcome
- Outcome domains: Water and soil
- Unit of observation: Tree individual
- Activity types: Monitoring visit
- Approval status: Approved
- Unit of measure:
NUM
Collections
- Biodiversity and ecosystem integrity module: Optional: the safeguard as a rate, what trees died of, mulch cover and stem growth, from the assessment and the visits under NCGS-M007, NCGS-M001 and NCGS-M002. For projects whose objective is ecological appropriateness and the health of what was planted.
Methodologies that serve it
Where it can be claimed, by stratum and horizon: the claims table.