Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach - Hardcover

Kent, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047149092X ISBN 13: 9780471490920

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A PracticalApproach, Second Edition is a fully revised and up-datededition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advancesin the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly approachto the coverage of vegetation description and multivariate analysisin the context of vegetation data and plant ecology.

Since the publication of the hugely popular first edition therehave been significant developments in computer hardware andsoftware, new key journals have been established in the field andscope and application of vegetation description and analysis hasbecome a truly global field. This new edition includes fullcoverage of new developments and technologies.
This contemporary and comprehensive edition of this well-known andrespected textbook will prove invaluable to undergraduate andgraduate students in biological sciences, environmental science,geography, botany, agriculture, forestry and biologicalconservation.
* Fully international approach
* Includes illustrative case studies throughout
* Now with new material on: the nature of plant communities;transitional areas between plant communities; induction anddeduction of plant ecology; diversity indices and dominancediversity curves; multivariate analysis in ecology.
* Accessible, reader-friendly style
* Now with new and improved illustrations

About this title

About the Author

Martin Kemp is the Emeritus Professor of Biogeography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, Devon, UK. His website can be found here: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/mkent

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 047149092X
• ISBN 13: 9780471490920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 428