An Introduction to Vegetation Analysis: Principles, practice and interpretation

摘要: 1 Introduction.- Nature of vegetation and analytical approaches.- Purposes analysis.- Phytosociological more objective methods.- Samples.- Types data.- 2 Field methods I.- Primary survey - many species.- More detailed field work one or a few Plotless sampling.- 3 Fundamental principles The geometric model.- Classification ordination.- Normal inverse analyses.- Qualitative quantitative Species low occurrence in data set retain discard?.- 4 Case studies introduction.- Artificial Data.- Iping Common lowland heath.- Coed Nant Lolwyn deciduous wood.- 5 Association between species similarity stands.- Concepts.- Quantitative Comparisons coefficients.- 6 Classification.- Analysis.- classification.- Divisive monothetic Agglomerative polythetic Comparison the by examples results.- Inverse classifications.- Nodal Analysis (Lambert & Williams 1962).- 7 Ordination.- A classification ordinations.- Direct Gradient factor.- factors.- Indirect factors (ordination sensu stricto).- Polar Non-polar ordination 8 Correlations environment.- Single Several Environmental associations.- 9 Common.- Lolwyn.- Concluding remarks on analysis References.- Indices.