The influence of transformations of an ordinal scale of a floristic gradient, applied on a TWINSPAN classification

Flora

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 389-403

  Vermeersch, Sophie ^a,b   De Genst, William ^b   Vermoesen, Frank ^c   Triest, Ludwig ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c NONE

Author keywords

DCA; Plant community; Vegetation gradient

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0142123056     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0367-2530-00111     Document Type: Article

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