Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Biodiversity of Semiarid Landscape
Author: Sunil NautiyalPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319154648
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This study presents authentic data compiled from field experiments and investigations, and provides a point of reference for any future changes associated with anthropogenic activity in semiarid ecosystems. Three years of continuous and rigorous empirical research on biodiversity (from phytoplankton to higher plants and from zooplankton to higher animals – all flora and fauna) in India’s semiarid region have culminated in this work. Though there are many studies available on issues related to biodiversity, the majority cover either specific groups of plants or groups of animals; with the exception of this book, studies that include all flora and fauna including the phyto- and zooplanktons in a given ecosystem are not readily available. Further, the book focuses on an extremely important topic, firstly because semiarid landscapes are highly vulnerable to climate change, and secondly because other developmental activities will be undertaken in the region in an effort to meet its energy requirements. As such, the results of the current study will provide a standard protocol for subsequent monitoring and mapping of biodiversity for conservation and management. The book explores, quantifies and surveys plant and animal species from aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, assessing and quantitatively analyzing the diversity indices of different vegetation strata. Further, it investigates the conservation status of each species (flora and fauna) in keeping with IUCN categories. The study also examines landscape dynamics using RS and GIS for vegetation analysis, and discusses traditional ecological knowledge related to the use, conservation and management of biodiversity. As such, it offers a unique and valuable resource not only for researchers from the environmental/ecological sciences but also for conservationists and policymakers.
List of Publications of the U.S. Army Engineers Waterway Experiment Station
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Technical Report
Author: Vegetation Monitoring
Author: Caryl L. ElzingaPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788148378
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.
A Methodology for Military Evaluation and Comparison of Tropical Terrain
Author: Hibberd Van Buren KlinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The over-all objective of the study is the development of a methodology by which the terrain of tropical areas can be evaluated as to its military significance and the terrain components which are derived grouped into complexes and regions that have military meaning. The methodology can then be used to evaluate the Panama Canal Zone as a military tropical testing site. The report is concerned with the presentation of a classification of selected factors of tropical terrain, and with the application of the natural vegetation factor of the classification to the Canal Zone.
Techniques and Methods of Measuring Understory Vegetation
Author: Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology
Author: Dieter Mueller-DomboisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Written 30 years ago as the first synthesis of European and Anglo-American methods in vegetation ecology, this text remains as current and topical today as it was a quarter of a century ago, because the progress that has been made in vegetation science is in the computer-based treatment of sample data, not in the creation of new sampling protocols.
Vegetation Description and Data Analysis
Author: Martin KentPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119962390
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A PracticalApproach, Second Edition is a fully revised and up-datededition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advancesin the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly approachto the coverage of vegetation description and multivariate analysisin the context of vegetation data and plant ecology. Since the publication of the hugely popular first edition therehave been significant developments in computer hardware andsoftware, new key journals have been established in the field andscope and application of vegetation description and analysis hasbecome a truly global field. This new edition includes fullcoverage of new developments and technologies. This contemporary and comprehensive edition of this well-known andrespected textbook will prove invaluable to undergraduate andgraduate students in biological sciences, environmental science,geography, botany, agriculture, forestry and biologicalconservation. * Fully international approach * Includes illustrative case studies throughout * Now with new material on: the nature of plant communities;transitional areas between plant communities; induction anddeduction of plant ecology; diversity indices and dominancediversity curves; multivariate analysis in ecology. * Accessible, reader-friendly style * Now with new and improved illustrations
General Technical Report PNW-GTR
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
A Methodological Critique of Vegetation Recording Systems
Author: Pierre DansereauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant morphology
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Since the initial development of the Dansereau scheme for describing and recording the structure (or physiognomy) of vegetation in 1951, a number of significant modifications to the scheme have been introduced, both by Dansereau and others. Notable variants include those by Mills and Clagg (1963, 1964) and by the Waterways Experiment Station. These variants are examined for consistency and logic, for the flexibility of each, and for the study of possible alternatives. Suggestions for improvements, providing for greater reliability and repeatability in field observations are made, including modifications of crown outline classes, absolute heights of vegetative layers, redefinition of leaf size and leaf shape, and so on. Examples of the use of the system(s) for the estimation of biomass are included. (Author).