A variant of the dry-weight rank method for botanical analysis of grassland with dominance-based multipliers

A new variant of the dry-weight rank method for botanical investigation of grassland is described and its usefulness evaluated. Multipliers proportional to the dominance percentages of the three species with the highest dominance percentages are used instead of fixed multipliers. The method is theoretically more valid and applicable to a broader range of grasslands than the variants with fixed multipliers. It does not involve more costs and gives as good or better predictions of the dry-weight percentages than the variants with fixed multipliers.