Mueller-Dombois D., Ellenberg H. Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology

Monograph
Language: EnglishNew York: Jonh Wiley & Sons, 1974. - 547 p.
The monograph is devoted to the basic concepts of vegetation ecology, the origin and modern trends in the development of this science, the analysis of vegetation cover, the classification and ordination of plant communities.
General
Introduction - clarification of concepts.
Background and current trends of vegetation ecology.
Plant community hypotheses.
Considerations of vegetation sampling.
Vegetation analysis in the field.
Community sampling: the releve method.
Measuring species quantities.
The count-plot method.
Classifying and ordinating vegetation data.
Vegetation structure, classification units and systems.
Classifying vegetation by tabular comparison.
Mathematical treatment of vegetation data.
Special and temporal explanations of vegetation patterns.
Vegetation-environment correlation studies.
Causal-analytical inquiries into the origin of plant communities.
Succession, climax and stability.
Vegetation and site mapping.