Almost half a century after Whittaker (Ecol Monogr 30: 279–338, 1960) proposed his
influential diversity concept, it is time for a critical reappraisal. Although the terms alpha, beta …

A standardized sampling technique for measuring plant diversity is needed to assist in
resource inventories and for monitoring long-term trends in vascular plant species richness …

This paper reviews the literature on the biology of clonal plants with emphasis on the
ecological consequences of clonality at the community level. The hierarchical (genet-ramet) …

Most textbooks on measuring terrestrial vegetation have focused on the characteristics of
biomass, cover, and the density or frequency of dominant life forms (trees, shrubs, grasses …

GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry
Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD …

This book provides a guide to the theoretical details of multivariate statistical procedures
included in SYN-TAX 5.0, a package of computer programs designed for data analysis in …

In order to explore the importance of near-natural beech forest in maintaining the diversity of
bryophytes, a near-natural montane beech stand was compared with five neighbouring …

Obtaining an adequate, representative sample of ecological communities to make taxon
richness (TR) or compositional comparisons among sites is a continuing challenge …

Biodiversity is changing rapidly, and ecologists use various measures to monitor and
conserve it, but not all are equally effective. In the European temperate forests, ecologists …

Multivariate analyses are used widely for determining patterns of assemblage structure,
inferring species–environment relationships and assessing human impacts on ecosystems …