ENGLISH

Plant and Vegetation Mapping

By Franco Pedrotti (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2013
ISBN
3642302343, 9783642302343
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-30235-0
LCC
2012943936
Google Books ID
eL7_zp4mqhYC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35484243 bytes)
Series
Geobotany Studies
Edition
1
Pages
294\309
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2013-07-05 20:34:17
Biogeosciences; Physical Geography; Plant Ecology;

Description

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 phytosociology (plant sociology). Geobotanical cartography is a field of thematic cartography that deals with the interpretation and representation, in the form of maps, of those spatial and temporal phenomena that pertain to flora, vegetation, vegetated landscapes, vegetation zones, and phytogeographical units. The production of a geobotanical map represents the last stage in a cognitive process that begins with observations in the field and continues with the collection of sample data, interpretation of the phenomena observed, and their appropriate cartographic representation; geobotanical cartography is closely tied to the concepts and scope of geobotany in general

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