is there an easy way to incorporate vitality data in vegetation records? For example:
I have a forest vegetation record consisting of 5 vegeation layers: mosses, herbs, low shrubs, high shrubs and trees and I want to record the cover of different species in different layers by means of a recording card. That's no problem using the appropriate measurement units and qualifiers. But how can I distinguish between different vitality classes of a species within the same vegetation layer without having an explosion (number of layers times number of vitality classes) of measurement fields in my recording card, e.g.
Quercus robur - high shrub layer - alive - 25% cover
Quercus robur - high shrub layer - dead - 10% cover

similar cases in heath-records where it is often necessary to distinguish between vital, old, shrubby, .. Caluna