Plant Cover - Ecological Implications and Methodical Approaches

摘要: Plant or vegetation cover is usually regarded as the vertically projected area of all (living) aboveground plant parts a percentage total ground considered (i.e., intraspecific overlap not taken into account). also does include belowgound parts. In this review, we use term very broadly to mosses, lichens, algae, and cyanobacteria. both ecological economic contexts, widely used readily accessible parameter describing dominance certain species, life forms, degree closure whole vegetation. respect, can be superior density productivity in different types, because ignores size variability between individuals, it difficult determine individuals clonal species. Furthermore, by using cover, possible compare species growth forms (Daubenmire, 1968; Mueller-Dombois Ellenberg, 1974). On other hand, major limitation that represents mostly three-dimensional structure only two dimensions.