TY - BOOK TI - Vegetation description and data analysis: a practical approach SN - 9780471490937 U1 - 581.7 PY - 2012/// CY - UK PB - John wiley & sons N1 - Safety in the field -- The nature of quantitative plant ecology and vegetation science -- Environmental gradients, plant communities and vegetation dynamics -- The description of vegetation in the field -- The nature and properties of vegetation data -- Basic statistical methods for understanding multivariate analysis -- Ordination methods -- Phytosociology and the Zurich-Montpellier (Braun-Blanquet) School of subjective classification -- Numerical classification, cluster analysis and phytosociology -- Computer software for the analysis of vegetation and environmental/biotic data -- Future developments in vegetation science and quantitative plant ecology ER -