Methods of vegetation study
Series: Holt-Dryden book
Publisher: Holt
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Plant ecology; Plant communities; Vegetation surveys
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: PART I: PRELIMINARY SURVEY: Mapping; title: PART II: PHYSIOGNOMIC SYSTEMS: The study of vegetation on a nonfloristic basis; title: PART III: FLORISTIC SYSTEMS: Frequency; title: Abundance and density; title: Cover and basal area; title: Transects; title: Plotless methods; title: PART IV: SUCCESSION: Succession in place; title: Succession by permanent plots; title: Succession studies by surface profiles and transects; title: PART V: ANALYTIC QUALITATIVE CONCEPTS: Sociability, vitality, periodicity, and stratification; title: PART VI: THE SYNTHESIS OF DATA FROM DIFFERENT STANDS: The American Clementsian System (Weaver and clements, 1938); title: A British system of dominance by scales of estimate; title: Presence; title: The Continuum (Curtis and McIntosh, 1951); title: Vegetation formulas (Stamp, 1929, and Gates, 1942); title: The degree of plant maturity of a plant community (Pichi-Sermolli, 1948); title: Community Coefficients (Jaccard, 1912); title: The study of communities on the basis of percentage, density, frequency, basal area, and size classes (Oosting, 1942, and Billings, 1938); title: The study of forest associations on the basis of percentage canopy composition in long transects (E. Lacy Braun, 1935 and 1950); title: The study of communities by the use of contiguous quadrats (Greig-Smith, 1952a, b, and c); title: Study of communities by correlation coefficients; title: Reduction of sampling error by stratification of the sample (Brown, 1954); title: Synthesis of data on the basis of scatter diagrams (Anderson, 1949); title: PART VII: ARTIFICIAL POPULATIONS: Construction and use of artificial populations.