Book description
Evolving from years of teaching experience by one of the top experts in
vegetation ecology,
Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology
aims to explain the background and basics of mathematical (mainly
multivariate) analysis of vegetation data.
The book lays out the basic
operations involved in the analysis, the underlying hypotheses, aims
and points of views. It conveys the message that each step in the
calculations has a specific, straightforward meaning and that patterns
and processes known by ecologists often find their counterpart in
mathematical operations and functions. The first chapters introduce
the elementary concepts and operations and relate them to real-world
phenomena and problems. Later chapters concentrate on combinations of
methods to reveal surprising features in data sets. Showing how to
find patterns in time series, how to generate simple dynamic models,
how to reveal spatial patterns and related occurrence probability
maps.
