Summary 1 Interpreting the functional diversity of vegetation is important in unravelling the
relationship between environmental change, community composition and ecosystem …

Environmental classifications are of paramount importance for assessing the impacts of land-
use changes, for prioritizing conservation efforts, and for develo** effective management …

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 …

Die Hauptkomponentenanalyse ist eines der ältesten Ordinationsverfahren. Sie wurde in
der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts im angloamerikanischen Raum entwickelt, daher …

Two alternatives are offered to Podani's proposals, based on the claim that Braun‐Blanquet
cover‐abundance estimates cannot be properly analysed by conventional mul‐tivariate …

Question: We explored the error resulting from different methods for recording the cover of
plants in vegetation plots, specifically the direct estimation of percent cover vs. the use of …

Background Conservation of the unique biodiversity of mountain ecosystems needs trans-
disciplinary approaches to succeed in a crowded colloquial world. Geographers …

Question: Community ecologists are often confronted with multiple possible partitions of a
single set of records of species composition and/or abundances from several sites. Different …

Cliffs are remarkable environments that enable the existence of microclimates. These small,
isolated sites, decoupled from the regional macroclimate, play a significant role in …

Aims Vegetation‐plot sampling usually involves estimating species cover. For classifying
plots to vegetation types, covers are often transformed to decrease the effect of dominant …