Classification and Ordination

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. The Development of Numerical Classification and Ordination

   • P. Greig-Smith

   Pages 1-9

3. Searching for a Model for Use in Vegetation Analysis

   • M. P. Austin

   Pages 11-21

4. An Algorithm for Predictive Ordination

   • László Orlóci

   Pages 23-25

5. Vegetation Analysis and Order Invariant Gradient Models

   • I. C. Prentice

   Pages 27-34

6. Evaluation of Ordination Methods Through Simulated Coenoclines: Some Comments

   • Enrico Feoli, Laura Feoli Chiapella

   Pages 35-41

7. On the Interpretability of Ordination Diagrams

   • Eddy van der Maarel

   Pages 43-45

8. Detrended Correspondence Analysis: An Improved Ordination Technique

   • M. O. Hill, H. G. Gauch Jr.

   Pages 47-58

9. Non-Centred Component Analysis of Vegetation Data: A Comparison of Orthogonal and Oblique Rotation

   • T. J. Carleton

   Pages 59-66

10. Some Applications of Principal Components Analysis in Vegetation: Ecological Research of Aquatic Communities

    • Gerhard Wiegleb

    Pages 67-73

11. On Selecting Indirect Ordination Methods

    • Roger del Moral

    Pages 75-84

12. Information Efficiency and Regional Constellation of Environmental Variables

    • J. Lepart, M. Debussche

    Pages 85-91

13. A Syntactic Basis of Classification

    • M. B. Dale

    Pages 93-98

14. The Minimisation of Random Events in the Search for Group Structure

    • Robert C. Jancey

    Pages 99-101

15. Rapid Initial Clustering of Large Data Sets

    • Hugh G. Gauch Jr.

    Pages 103-111

16. Hierarchical Levels in Syntaxonomy Based on Information Functions

    • Enrico Feoli, Duilio Lausi

    Pages 113-115

17. Numerical Approaches to Lake Classification with Special Reference to Macrophyte Communities

    • Sven Jensén, Eddy van der Maarel

    Pages 117-128

18. Preliminary Survey of the Peat-Bog Hummell Knowe Moss Using Various Numerical Methods

    • R. S. Clymo

    Pages 129-148

19. Classification and Ordination in the Indian Peaks Area, Colorado Rocky Mountains

    • Věra Komárková

    Pages 149-163

20. Multivariate Analysis of Multispectral Remote Sensing Data on Grasslands from Different Soil Types

    • P. van Hecke, I. Impens, R. Goossens, F. Hebrant

    Pages 165-170

Eddy V AN DER MAAREL This volume is the first of two volumes covering the Sym­ computer programmes for the rapid clustering and ordina­ posium 'Advances in vegetation science', which was held at tion of very large sets of reI eves and for (subsequent) table Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from 15-19 May 1979. This rearrangement (this volume as well as the book Data­ symposium was organized on behalf of the Working Group Processing in Phytosociology contain various new pro­ for Data-Processing of the International Society for Vege­ grams). What we do not have is a manual in which the tation Science. After this group held its final meeting two apparently successful methods are compared and applied years earlier it decided to continue its activities, but within a to some data-sets. H. Lieth, editor-in-chief of a new Junk wider scope. Most members of the Group felt that the series 'Tasks for vegetation science' already suggested to original aim, i. e. the introduction of data-processing and produce such a manual in this series. multivariate methods for use in the systematic description The present volume contains the texts of the lectures and of plant communities, was more or less fulfilled. The book most of the poster demonstrations of the first three sessions Data -Processing in Phytosociology, largely based on papers of the Symposium, dealing with classification and ordina­ in Vegetatio, edited by E. van der Maarel, L. Orloci & S.

• Ordination
• classification
• development
• environment
• lake
• soil
• taxonomy
• vegetation

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