National Vegetation Classification - Field Guide to Mires and Heaths (Joint Nature Conservation Committee) - Softcover

Elkington, T.; Dayton, N.; Jackson, D. L.; Strachan, I. M.

 
9781907807503: National Vegetation Classification - Field Guide to Mires and Heaths (Joint Nature Conservation Committee)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1907807500 ISBN 13: 9781907807503
Publisher: Pelagic, 2013

Synopsis

The National Vegetation Classification (NVC) has become the standard classification used for describing vegetation in Britain. It is a 'phytosociological' classification, classifying vegetation solely on the basis of the plant species of which it is composed. The NVC breaks down each broad vegetation type into communities. Many of these communities contain two or more sub-communities, in a few cases further divided into variants.

The second volume of British Plant Communities (Rodwell, 1991) provides a detailed account of 38 mire communities and 22 heath communities, with information on their composition, structure and distribution. The summary descriptions here are derived directly from the full accounts prepared by John Rodwell but are in no way a substitute for them. Rather they are intended as an aide-memoire to assist surveyors in the field or for anyone else wishing to familiarise themselves with the overall scheme of classification for mires and heaths.

This is a reprint edition (with no amendments) of ISBN 1-86107-526-X.

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Publisher
Pelagic
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1907807500
ISBN 13 
9781907807503
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
120

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