Vegetation Description and Data Analysis A Practical Approach

by Kent, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780471490920
• ISBN10: 047149092X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Updated from the highly regarded first edition, Vegetation, Description & Analysis: A Practical Approach 2nd edition is a manual of techniques of vegetation description and analysis which takes a non mathematical approach with an emphasis on the practical and ecological aspects of the subject. With new material on: Nature of plant communities Transitional areas between plant communities Induction and deduction of plant ecology, diversity indices an dominance diversity curves Multivariate analysis in ecology This text is intended for plant ecologists and biogeographers, undergraduates in biological science, environmental science and geography and postgraduate Masters degree courses.

Author Biography

Martin Kemp is the Emeritus Professor of Biogeography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, Devon, UK. His website can be found here: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/mkent

Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition ix

Acknowledgements xi

Safety in the field xiii

Chapter 1 The nature of quantitative plant ecology and vegetation science 1

Chapter 2 Environmental gradients, plant communities and vegetation 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 understanding multivariate analysis 139

Chapter 6 Ordination methods 171

Chapter 7 Phytosociology and the Zürich-Montpellier (Braun-Blanquet) School of subjective classification 273

Chapter 8 Numerical classification, cluster analysis and phytosociology 307

Chapter 9 Computer software for the analysis of vegetation and environmental/biotic data 359

Chapter 10 Future developments in vegetation science and quantitative plant ecology 369

References 371

Index 403