Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales

Elgene Owen Box

ISBN 10: 3319214519 / ISBN 13: 9783319214511

Published by Springer, Springer Mär 2016, 2016

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales, often simultaneously. Methodology is important in science, since it responds to particular questions and raises others. It is also closely related to the scale of investigation. Chapters in this book illustrate this interdependence, even in basic tasks such as vegetation sampling and description, measurements and mapping. Individual chapters present globally applicable systems, regional syntheses and local analyses and applications, plus conceptual methodologies, including currently debated hot topics. Vegetation types treated include tropical rainforests, temperate forests, dry steppes and scrub and local turf, sedge and moss communities. There are also chapters on re-vegetation, woodlot management, ecology of an invasive species, and trajectory planning in conservation. This book will be useful to both students and practitioners, for its reviews and examples and as a potential textbook suitable for graduate-level courses and seminars.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 620 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vegetation Structure and Function at Multiple Spatial, Temporal and Conceptual Scales
• Publisher: Springer, Springer Mär 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319214519
• ISBN 13: 9783319214511
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 39D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 39 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1086 grams

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This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales, often simultaneously. Methodology is important in science, since it responds to particular questions and raises others. It is also closely related to the scale of investigation. Chapters in this book illustrate this interdependence, even in basic tasks such as vegetation sampling and description, measurements and mapping. Individual chapters present globally applicable systems, regional syntheses and local analyses and applications, plus conceptual methodologies, including currently debated hot topics. Vegetation types treated include tropical rainforests, temperate forests, dry steppes and scrub and local turf, sedge and moss communities. There are also chapters on re-vegetation, woodlot management, ecology of an invasive species, and trajectory planning in conservation. This book will be useful to both students and practitioners, for its reviews and examples and as a potential textbook suitable for graduate-level courses and seminars.