Taxonomic, morphological and structural surrogates for the rapid assessment of vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 747-754

  Ramsay, Paul M ^a   Kent, Martin ^a   Reid, Catherine L ^a   Duckworth, Jennifer C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Plantlife ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Environmental impact assessment; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Monitoring; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Plant functional type; Supra specific taxa; Vegetation description

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; HABITAT MOSAIC; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION COVER;

CANTABRIA; CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; HEBRIDES; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; OUTER HEBRIDES; PICOS DE EUROPA; SCOTLAND; SOUTH UIST; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN ISLES;

EID: 33846925928     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2006)17[747:TMASSF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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