Volume 20, Issue 6 pp. 589-599
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COMPOUND ANALYSIS: A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON A NEW NUMERICAL APPROACH IN PHYTOSOCIOLOGY

L. F. M. Fresco

L. F. M. Fresco

Laboratorium voor Plantenoecologie, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Biologisch Centrum, Haren

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First published: December 1971
Citations: 9

SUMMARY

A method has been developed to analyse and classify a single releve, recorded at a given area. The vegetation of the area can be interpreted with reference to a set of releves, representing a much larger area. From a set containing releves from coastal and inland salt vegetations in Europe overlapping species groups are erected. The vegetation of a salt marsh on the West Frisian island of Schiermonnikoog is analysed sociologically on the basis of this table. Some remarks are made on details of the system of the French-Swiss school of phytosociology.

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