Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach - Couverture rigide

Kent, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 047149092X ISBN 13 : 9780471490920

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach,second edition is a fully revised and up–dated edition of thiskey text. The book takes account of recent advances in the fieldwhilst retaining the original reader–friendly approach to thecoverage of vegetation description and multivariate analysis in thecontext of vegetation data and plant ecology.

Since the publication of the hugely popular first edition therehave been significant developments in computer hardware andsoftware, new key journals have been established in the field andscope and application of vegetation description and analysis hasbecome a truly global field.
This new edition includes full coverage of new developments andtechnologies.

This contemporary and comprehensive edition of this well–knownand respected textbook will prove invaluable to undergraduate andgraduate students in biological sciences, environmental science,geography, botany, agriculture, forestry and biologicalconservation.

• Fully international approach
• Illustrative case studies used throughout
• Now with new material including: the nature of plantcommunities; induction and deduction in plant ecology; thepotential relevance of Bayesian statistical analysis; recentadvances in methods of ordination and classification (clusteranalysis) and links to spatial analysis; a comprehensive andup–to–date review of the wide range of computer software nowavailable; the increasing importance of R–related software
• Accessible, reader–friendly style
• Now with new and improved illustrations

Biographie de l'auteur

Martin Kemp is the Emeritus Professor of Biogeography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, Devon, UK. His website can be found here: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/mkent

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 047149092X
• ISBN 13: 9780471490920
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 428