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"This handbook specifies methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land survey investigations related to practical problems of land use and the scientific study of land and soil. It has been widely used and adopted as a standard throughout Australia, providing one reference set of definitions for the characterisation of landform and vegetation and for the description of soils. The book advocates that a comprehensive suite of land and soil attributes be recorded in a uniform manner. This approach is held to be more useful than the allocation of land or soil to preconceived types or classes. Its usefulness is enhanced where computer facilities are available. This revised edition contains significant changes to the Vegetation chapter and revisions to the Location chapter bringing it up-to-date with the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and changes to the Substrate chapter relating to the regolith."--Provided by publisher.

Landforms --- Soil surveys --- Land use surveys --- Vegetation classification --- Plant communities --- Systematic plant sociology --- Synsystematics --- Syntaxonomy --- Vegetation systematics --- Plants --- Surveys --- Natural resources surveys --- Land forms --- Geomorphology --- Classification --- Soil science (Australia)

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Talus (Geology) --- -Vegetation classification --- -Plant communities --- Systematic plant sociology --- Synsystematics --- Syntaxonomy --- Vegetation systematics --- Plants --- Scree --- Talus slope --- Colluvium --- Classification --- Tatrzanski Park Narodowy (Poland) --- -Tatra National Park (Poland) --- Tatrzański National Park (Poland) --- Environmental conditions --- Poland --- national parks --- phytosociology --- scree plants --- -Tatrzanski Park Narodowy (Poland) --- -Environmental conditions --- Vegetation classification --- Plant communities --- Tatrzański Park Narodowy (Poland) --- Tatra National Park (Poland) --- Environmental conditions.

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British Plant Communities is the first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country. It covers all natural, semi-natural and major artificial habitats in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland), representing the fruits of fifteen years of research by leading plant ecologists. The book breaks new ground in wedding the rigorous interest in the classification of plant communities that has characterized Continental phytosociology with the deep concern traditional in Great Britain to understand how vegetation works. The published volumes have been greeted with universal acclaim, and the series has become firmly established as a framework for a wide variety of teaching, research and management activities in ecology, conservation and land-use planning.

Plant communities --- Phytogeography --- Vegetation classification --- Systematic plant sociology --- Synsystematics --- Syntaxonomy --- Vegetation systematics --- Plants --- Botanical geography --- Botany --- Geobotany --- Geographical distribution of plants --- Plant distribution --- Plant geography --- Plant species --- Biogeography --- Disjunct plants --- Communities, Plant --- Phytosociology --- Plant associations --- Plant societies --- Biotic communities --- Plant ecology --- Classification --- Geographical distribution --- Great Britain. --- Forest plants

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Plant community ecology has traditionally taken a taxonomical approach based on population dynamics. This book contrasts such an approach with a trait-based approach. After reviewing these two approaches, it then explains how models based on the Maximum Entropy Formalism can be used to predict the relative abundance of different species from a potential species pool. Following this it shows how the trait constraints, upon which the model is based, are necessary consequences of natural selection and population dynamics. The final sections of the book extend the discussion to macroecological patterns of species abundance and concludes with some outstanding unresolved questions. Written for advanced undergraduates, graduates and researchers in plant ecology, Bill Shipley demonstrates how a trait-based approach, can explain how the principle of natural selection and quantitative genetics can be combined with maximum entropy methods to explain and predict the structure of plant communities.

Plant communities --- Plant ecology. --- Vegetation classification. --- Vegetation surveys. --- Mathematical models. --- ECO Ecology --- community ecology --- population dynamics --- natural selection --- genetics --- plant communities --- macroecology --- vegetation structure --- Botanical inventories --- Botanical surveys --- Inventories, Botanical --- Inventories, Vegetation --- Vegetation inventories --- Botany --- Ecological surveys --- Phytogeography --- Systematic plant sociology --- Synsystematics --- Syntaxonomy --- Vegetation systematics --- Plants --- Communities, Plant --- Phytosociology --- Plant associations --- Plant societies --- Biotic communities --- Plant ecology --- Methodology --- Classification --- Floristic ecology --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Ecology

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Land use --- Vegetation classification --- Land cover --- 631.47 --- 581.9 --- 574.4 --- Surveying, classification and utilization of land. Soil profiles. Litter. Humus. Topsoil. Subsoil etc. Micropedology --- Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants --- Terrestrial biocoenoses and ecosystems. Biogeocoenoses. Biogeochemical cycles. Food chains --- 574.4 Terrestrial biocoenoses and ecosystems. Biogeocoenoses. Biogeochemical cycles. Food chains --- 581.9 Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants --- 631.47 Surveying, classification and utilization of land. Soil profiles. Litter. Humus. Topsoil. Subsoil etc. Micropedology --- Plant communities --- Systematic plant sociology --- Synsystematics --- Syntaxonomy --- Vegetation systematics --- Plants --- Cover, Land --- Classification --- Land use - Classification