Description
Book SynopsisVegetation Description and Data Analysis: A PracticalApproach, Second Edition is a fully revised and up-datededition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advancesin the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly approachto the coverage of vegetation description and multivariate analysisin the context of vegetation data and plant ecology.
Since the publication of the hugely popular first edition therehave been significant developments in computer hardware andsoftware, new key journals have been established in the field andscope and application of vegetation description and analysis hasbecome a truly global field. This new edition includes fullcoverage of new developments and technologies.
This contemporary and comprehensive edition of this well-known andrespected textbook will prove invaluable to undergraduate andgraduate students in biological sciences, environmental science,geography, botany, agriculture, forestry and biologicalconservation.
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Table of ContentsPreface to the second edition ix
Acknowledgements xi
Safety in the field xiii
Chapter 1 The nature of quantitative plant ecology andvegetation science 1
Chapter 2 Environmental gradients, plant communities andvegetation dynamics 23
Chapter 3 The description of vegetation in the field 49
Chapter 4 The nature and properties of vegetation data 101
Chapter 5 Basic statistical methods for understandingmultivariate analysis 139
Chapter 6 Ordination methods 171
Chapter 7 Phytosociology and the Z¨urich-Montpellier(Braun-Blanquet) School of subjective classification 273
Chapter 8 Numerical classification, cluster analysis andphytosociology 307
Chapter 9 Computer software for the analysis of vegetation andenvironmental/biotic data 359
Chapter 10 Future developments in vegetation science andquantitative plant ecology 369
References 371
Index 403
