[R-sig-eco] Neighbor sampling is random?

[Paulo Inácio de Knegt López de Prado]

Dear r-eco-list users,

This is not an R-question, but a statistical one, but maybe somebody can help.

I had read that to set random points over an area and picking the nearest
plant is not random sample, but I could not recover this article.

Is that correct? Could you provide some basic reference?

Thanks a lot

Paulo

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