How to Use a Dichotomous Key: A Tutorial Featuring 10 Common Shade Trees of the Tampa Bay Area

A dichotomous key is a tool used to help identify an unknown organism. This 12-page fact sheet features a key of leaf characteristics for ten common broadleaf trees in the Tampa Bay Area. Accurately navigating this series of paired, either-or choices about leaf characteristics will lead the reader...

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Main Authors: Andrew K. Koeser, Gitta Hasing, Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman
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Language:English
Published: The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries 2016-08-01
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/127912
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description A dichotomous key is a tool used to help identify an unknown organism. This 12-page fact sheet features a key of leaf characteristics for ten common broadleaf trees in the Tampa Bay Area. Accurately navigating this series of paired, either-or choices about leaf characteristics will lead the reader to identify the correct tree from the group of ten. Written by Andrew K. Koeser, Gitta Hasing, Michael G. Andreu, and Melissa H. Friedman, and published by the Environmental Horticulture Department, June 2016.
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Landscape Trees
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title How to Use a Dichotomous Key: A Tutorial Featuring 10 Common Shade Trees of the Tampa Bay Area
title_full How to Use a Dichotomous Key: A Tutorial Featuring 10 Common Shade Trees of the Tampa Bay Area
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title_short How to Use a Dichotomous Key: A Tutorial Featuring 10 Common Shade Trees of the Tampa Bay Area
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Landscape Trees
EP510
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