Plant and Vegetation Mapping

• Main Author: Pedrotti, Franco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Geobotany Studies, Basics, Methods and Case Studies
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geobiology.; Physical geography.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Physical Geography.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Sciences.

The book is concerned principally with geobotanical mapping. Geobotany is a broad science that deals with the study of species and of vegetation communities in relation to the environment; it includes other, perhaps more familiar sciences, such as plant geography, plant ecology, and chorology, and p...

Table of Contents:

• Geobotanical Mapping and its Levels of Study
• Mapping Populations
• Mapping Synusiae
• Chorological Maps
• Mapping Vegetation
• Types of Vegetation Maps
• Examples of Vegetation Maps
• Mapping Systems of Dynamically Related Communities
• Phytogeographical Mapping
• Mapping Vegetation Zones and Belts
• Mapping Plant Biodiversity
• Applied Geobotanical Mapping
• Geobotanical Mapping in Italy
• Mapping Environments.