An Introduction to Vegetation Analysis: "Principles, Practice And Interpretation" - Brossura

Causton, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0045810257 ISBN 13: 9780045810253

Casa editrice: Springer, 2013

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01890, USA Allen & Unwin (Australia) Ltd, 8 Napier Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia Allen & Unwin (New Zealand) Ltd in association with the Port Nicholson Press Ltd, 60 Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand First published in 1988 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Causton, David R.

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Contenuti

1 Introduction.- Nature of vegetation and analytical approaches.- Purposes of vegetation analysis.- Phytosociological and more objective methods.- Samples.- Types of data.- 2 Field methods I.- Primary survey — many species.- More detailed field work — one or a few species.- Plotless sampling.- 3 Fundamental principles of analytical methods.- The geometric model.- Classification and ordination.- Normal and inverse analyses.- Qualitative and quantitative data.- Species of low occurrence in a data set — retain or discard?.- 4 Case studies — introduction.- Artificial Data.- Iping Common — a lowland heath.- Coed Nant Lolwyn — a deciduous wood.- 5 Association between species and similarity between stands.- Concepts.- Qualitative data.- Quantitative data.- Comparisons of similarity coefficients.- 6 Classification.- Normal Association Analysis.- Types of classification.- Divisive monothetic methods.- Agglomerative polythetic methods.- Divisive polythetic methods.- Comparison of the methods by the examples results.- Inverse classifications.- Nodal Analysis (Lambert & Williams 1962).- 7 Ordination.- A classification of ordinations.- Direct Gradient Analysis — one factor.- Direct Gradient Analysis — many factors.- Indirect Gradient Analysis — one factor.- Indirect Gradient Analysis — many factors (ordination sensu stricto).- Polar ordination.- Non-polar ordination.- Comparisons of ordination methods.- 8 Correlations between vegetation and environment.- Single species.- Several species.- Environmental factors in associations.- 9 Case studies — analyses.- Iping Common.- Coed Nant Lolwyn.- Concluding remarks on vegetation analysis results.- References.- Indices.

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• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0045810257
• ISBN 13: 9780045810253
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 372
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