Quantitative Dynamic Plant Ecology

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Edward Arnold(publishers) Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1985
Edition: Third

Description: 282 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. This New Edition Includes A Re-appraisal Of Succession, With A Discussion Of The More Recent Theories, And The Section On Allelopathy Has Been Updated.

Publishers Description: The description of vegetation; Sampling, tests of comparison, application of quadrat measures; Vegetation change. Plant succesion and the climax; Cyclic vegetation change; The causal factors of positive and negative association between species; Plant population dynamics; The poisson series and the detection of non-randomness; The causal factors of pattern; The detection of natural groupings of species: classification methods; Ordination methods I; Ordination methods II - The limitations of component analysis as an ordination technique; Ordination methods III - Reciprocal averaging, detrended correspondence analysis and TWINSPAN.

ISBN: 9780713129083