CLASSIFICATION OF PLANT COMMUNITIES

WHITTAKER, Robert H., Editor

ISBN 10: 9061935660 / ISBN 13: 9789061935667

Published by Dr. W. Junk Publishers/ The Hague, Boston, Massachusetts, 1978

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Faded dark green paper binding with black print on front cover. Teal spine with black print. Some rub and shelf wear along all edges and on covers. Small water stain on edge of front cover. Previous owner's name on upper right corner of front fly-leaf and side edge. Tight, sound and otherwise unmarked. "Ordination of Plant Communities" are articles (Chapters)1-11. 408 pages including short preface and 9 page index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CLASSIFICATION OF PLANT COMMUNITIES
• Publisher: Dr. W. Junk Publishers/ The Hague, Boston, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9061935660
• ISBN 13: 9789061935667
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

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.