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5. Expected outcome

• Inventory of TM Resources developed for high-altitude medicinal plants of

Bhutan.

• Baseline and a national index developed for high-altitude medicinal plants of
Bhutan.
• Indicators generated for management, monitoring, and assessment of high-

altitude medicinal plants.

6. Application and materials used

• Applications;

- QGIS
- Google Earth
- SW Map

• Materials;

- GPS Garmin-eTrex 20 and 30
- Clinometer
- Measuring tape and scale

- Masking tape

- Magnifying glass
- PVC Pipe and Mason line
- Herbarium development materials

- Guidelines and Site maps
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7. High Altitude Medicinal Plants Survey and Mapping
Methods

• Systematic Line Transect and Polygon methods were adopted depending on
the elevation and habitat, species diversity and density, distribution and richness,
slope gradient and slope aspect, vegetation, dominant species and the survey

area.

• A quadrat size of 2/2 metres was used to isolate a standard unit of area for
enumeration. The quadrat is laid alternately at an interval of 500 metres as
shown in Figure VI.

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