Martin Kent

Vegetation Description and Data Analysis

A Practical Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach, second edition is a fully revised and up-dated edition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advances in the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly approach to the coverage of vegetation description and multivariate analysis in the context of vegetation data and plant ecology. Since the publication of the hugely popular first edition there have been significant developments in computer hardware and software, new key journals have been established in the field and scope and application of vegetation description and analysis has become a truly global field. This new edition includes full coverage of new developments and technologies. This contemporary and comprehensive edition of this well-known and respected textbook will prove invaluable to undergraduate and graduate students in biological sciences, environmental science, geography, botany, agriculture, forestry and biological conservation. * Fully international approach * Illustrative case studies used throughout * Now with new material including: the nature of plant communities; induction and deduction in plant ecology; the potential relevance of Bayesian statistical analysis; recent advances in methods of ordination and classification (cluster analysis) and links to spatial analysis; a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the wide range of computer software now available; the increasing importance of R-related software * Accessible, reader-friendly style * Now with new and improved illustrations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 192mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1014g
• ISBN-13: 9780471490920
• ISBN-10: 047149092X
• Artikelnr.: 35056665

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 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 Zürich-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