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Classification of Plant Communities

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Robert H. Whittaker

    1. Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Vegetation Science (HAVS, volume 5-1)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Approaches to Classifying Vegetation

    • Robert H. Whittaker
    Pages 1-31

  3. The Physiognomic Approach

    • John S. Beard
    Pages 33-64

  4. Dominance-Types

    • Robert H. Whittaker
    Pages 65-79

  5. The Finnish School and Forest Site-Types

    • Toomas E. A. Frey
    Pages 81-110

  6. Synusial Approaches to Classification

    • Jan J. Barkman
    Pages 111-165

  7. Russian Approaches to Classification of Vegetation

    • Vera D. Aleksandrova
    Pages 167-200

  8. North European Approaches to Classification

    • Hans Trass, Nils Malmer
    Pages 201-245

  9. Numerical Methods of Classification

    • David W. Goodall
    Pages 247-286

  10. The Braun-Blanquet Approach

    • Victor Westhoff, Eddy Van Der Maarel
    Pages 287-399

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 400-408
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About this book

The natural communities of the world are diverse, and many schools of ecology have developed classifications of communities in partial independence of one another. There is consequently a vast and widely dispersed literature on the classification of plant and animal communities, comprising divergent approaches of different schools and representing a great experiment on the usefulness of different possibilities for classification. The editor sought in a re­ view monograph of 1962 to summarize these schools and their history, and in 1973 published a treatise on 'Ordination and Clas­ sification of Communities' as volume 5 of the Handbook of Vegetation Science. We were fortunate, in preparing the latter work, to have a truly international panel of authors to discuss different major ap­ proaches to classification. This second edition of the book of 1973 is intended to make the work more widely available in a less expensive form as companion volumes on ordination and on classification of plant communities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Robert H. Whittaker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Classification of Plant Communities

  • Editors: Robert H. Whittaker

  • Series Title: Handbook of Vegetation Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9183-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Dr W. Junk bv Publishers, The Hauge 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-6193-566-7Published: 31 October 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9183-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 408

  • Topics: Plant Sciences

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