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Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia.
This original work makes unprecedented use of some of the most important research to date in plant ecology. It is a guide for assessing site quality, that is, the climate and soil of particular forest and non-forest ecosystems. Foresters have long been interested in using plants as indicators in pre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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UBC Press
1989.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- TABLES
- FIGURES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Scope
- Format
- 2 BASIC CONCEPTS
- Ecosystem, Vegetation, and Site
- The Ecosystem Concept in Forest Management
- Site Diagnosis
- 3 CONCEPTS AND METHODS RELATED TO INDICATOR PLANTS
- Plants as Site Indicators
- Choice of Objects of Plant Indication
- Indicator Values of Species
- Choice of Indicator Species
- Indicator Species Groups
- 4 SITE ATTRIBUTES AND INDICATOR SPECIES
- Climate
- Indicators of Climate
- Soil Moisture
- Indicators of Soil Moisture
- Soil Nutrients.
- Indicators of Soil Nitrogen
- Ground Surface Materials
- Indicators of Ground Surface Materials
- 5 INDICATOR PLANT ANALYSIS
- Individual-Species Method
- Spectral Method
- Index Method
- 6 DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INDICATOR PLANTS
- REFERENCES
- APPENDICES
- Appendix 1 Synopsis of Indicator Species Groups and Indicator Values of Species
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- Appendix 2 Index of Scientific and Common Names of Species
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- Appendix 3 Photo credits.