This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales, often simultaneously. Methodology is important in science, since it responds to particular questions and raises others. It is also closely related to the scale of investigation. Chapters in this book illustrate this interdependence, even in basic tasks such as vegetation sampling and description, measurements and mapping. Individual chapters present globally applicable systems, regional syntheses, and local analyses and applications, plus conceptual methodologies, including currently debated hot topics. Vegetation types treated include tropical rainforests, temperate forests, dry steppes and scrub, and local turf, sedge and moss communities. There are also chapters on re-vegetation, woodlot management, ecology of an invasive species, and trajectory planning in conservation. This book will be useful to both students and practitioners, for its reviews and examples, and as a potential textbook suitable for graduate-level courses and seminars.

First book-length treatment of the subject Full range of objectives, scales, regions and vegetation types, from global to local scale, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, rainforests to steppe and dry scrub, including theoretical systems, regional analyses and syntheses, landscape-scale studies, perspectives on commonly used and novel methodologies and conservation applications Reviews and discussions of current hot topics, including debated paradigms, methodologies and applications Will include a subject index (and taxonomic index), unlike most such books Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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