| Classification of Plant Communities 1978 Edition Contributor(s): Whittaker, R. H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9061935660 ISBN-13: 9789061935667 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1980 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Dewey: 580 |
| Series: Handbook of Vegetation Science |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.48 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The natural communities of the world are diverse, and many schools of ecology have developed classifications of communities in partial independence of one another. There is consequently a vast and widely dispersed literature on the classification of plant and animal communities, comprising divergent approaches of different schools and representing a great experiment on the usefulness of different possibilities for classification. The editor sought in a re- view monograph of 1962 to summarize these schools and their history, and in 1973 published a treatise on 'Ordination and Clas- sification of Communities' as volume 5 of the Handbook of Vegetation Science. We were fortunate, in preparing the latter work, to have a truly international panel of authors to discuss different major ap- proaches to classification. This second edition of the book of 1973 is intended to make the work more widely available in a less expensive form as companion volumes on ordination and on classification of plant communities. |
