Publisher Summary This chapter concerns data analysis techniques that assist the
interpretation of community composition in terms of species' responses to environmental …

Ecologists need to analyze their field data to interpret relationships within plant and animal
communities and with their environments. The purpose of this book is to show ecologists …

Publisher Summary The theory of gradient analysis is presented in this chapter, in which the
heuristic techniques are integrated with regression, calibration, ordination and constrained …

Ecologists are making increasing use of computer methods in analyzing ecological data on
plant and animal communities. Ecological problems naturally involve numerous variables …

Metric (eigenanalysis) and nonmetric multidimensional scaling strategies for ecological
ordination were compared. The result, based on simulated coenoplane data showing …

1 The spatial pattern of vegetation heterogeneity across different scales may indicate the
major environmental controls on vegetation structure, and thus guide strategies for the …

The first objective of this paper is to define a new measure of fidelity of a species to a
vegetation unit, called u. The value of u is derived from the approximation of the binomial or …

The 3rd edition of this popular textbook introduces the reader to the investigation of
vegetation systems with an emphasis on data analysis. The book succinctly illustrates the …

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 …

This chapter covers classification of natural and semi‐natural vegetation, including
classification frameworks, components of classification, project planning and data …