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Computer assisted vegetation analysis

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. E. Feoli
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  2. L. Orlóci
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Part of the book series: Handbook of Vegetation Science (HAVS, volume 11)

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Properties and Interpretation of Observations in Vegetation Study

      • E. Feoli, L. Orlóci
      Pages 3-13

    5. Characters and Character Selection

      1. On Character-Based Plant Community Analysis: Choice, Arrangement, Comparison
        • L. Orlóci
        Pages 81-86
      2. Fuzzy Components in Community Level Comparisons
        • V. De Patta Pillar, L. Orlóci
        Pages 87-93
      3. Fuzzy Linguistics Concept in Redescription of Vegetation Data
        • Z. R. Boryslawski, E. Krusińska
        Pages 95-99
      4. A Comparison of Some Methods of Selecting Species in Vegetation Analysis
        • M. B. Dale, M. Beatrice, R. Venanzoni, C. Ferrari
        Pages 101-119

    8. Evaluation of Classification

      1. Locality Theory: The Phenomenon and its Significance
        • R. C. Jancey, T. C. Wells
        Pages 213-219
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About this book

There are many books and computer programs dealing look ahead rather than pondering the past. This is a with data analysis. It would be easy to count at least a manual of recent views that evolved in the study of hundred, yet few of these would show applications in vegetation. This book is intended to emphasize the new vegetation science. Today in the face of environmental acquisitions which we believe significantly affect the degradation caused by anthropogenic pressures on the future of vegetation analysis: biosphere there is added urgency to study vegetation 1. Vegetation is a 'fuzzy' system, it must be treated as processes and dynamics in order to understand their role such at the set level, where the idea ofconceptualized in regulating the water, oxygen and the carbon cycles, in patterns must drive the research design. relation to global warming and ozone layer depletion. It 2. Vegetation cannot be seen only in the perspective of a is well known that ecology was developed first in vegeta­ traditional taxonomy based on the species concept; tion studies (see Acot 1989) but after an active period character sets of ecological value must enter into marked by intensive phytoclimatic and synecological consideration and a hierarchical analysis of patterns studies, vegetation science entered in a rather dormant and processes should be the basis of comparisons. period. Other ecological disciplines such as animal popu­ 3.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computer assisted vegetation analysis

  • Editors: E. Feoli, L. Orlóci

  • Series Title: Handbook of Vegetation Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3418-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1126-3Published: 30 November 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5512-3Published: 23 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3418-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 498

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Ecology, Ecology

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