The purpose of the manual is to introduce vegetation classification and survey to those with limited botanical or ecological experience. The kinds of people for whom the engaged in policy development to research workers, teachers and students. Apart from providing some background on classificatio...
Gillison, A.N.
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[A field manual for rapid vegetation survey and classification for general purpose]
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A field manual for rapid vegetation survey and classification for general purpose
Conventional descriptive methods rarely convey the behavioural information needed to conserve and manage the world's vegetation. Such information may be derived from a generic set of plant functional attributes (PFAs). A grammar provides a syntactic rule base for generating and comparing coherent...
Gillison, A.N.
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Carpenter, G.
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[A generic plant functional attribute set and grammar for vegetation description and analysis]
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A generic plant functional attribute set and grammar for vegetation description and analysis
Conventional method of vegetation description rarely convey the behavioural of response based information needed to describe effectively the world's vegetation for conservation and management purposes. The information required for these purposes may be derived from generic set of plant functional...
Gillison, A.N.
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Carpenter, G.
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[A generic plant functional attribute set and grammar for dynamic vegetation description and analysis.]
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A generic plant functional attribute set and grammar for dynamic vegetation description and analysis.
Most biodiversity assessment methods tend to sample isolated areas of land cover such as closed forest or local land use mosaics. Contemporary methods of assessing biodiversity are briefly reviewed and focus on the relative roles of the Linnean species and plant functional types (PFTs). Recent ca...
Gillison, A.N.
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Liswanti, N.
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[Assessing biodiversity at landscape level in northern Thailand and Sumatra (Indonesia): the importance of environmental context]
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Assessing biodiversity at landscape level in northern Thailand and Sumatra (Indonesia): the importance of environmental context