Measuring Plant Diversity
Lessons from the Field
ISBN13: 9780195172331ISBN10: 0195172337
Hardback,
408 pages
Oct 2006,
In Stock
Price:
$60.00 (06)
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2007
Description
Ecologists interested in assessing landscapes and ecosystems must measure biomass, cover, and the density or frequency of various key species. Recently, sampling designs for measuring species richness and diversity, patterns of plant diversity, species-environment relationships, and species distributions have become fine-grained, as it has become increasingly important to accurately map and assess rare species for conservation. This book lays out the range of current methods for mapping and measuring species diversity, for field ecologists, resource managers, conservation biologist, and students, as a tool kit for future measurements of plant diversity.Reviews
"If you need to measure the diversity of plants (or other taxa for that matter), the many lessons in this book should not be ignored." -- The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 83
"Well written 'how to' book on current techniques to measure plant diversity in space and time...An indispensable resource for all science libraries."--CHOICE
"This is an indispensable resource for all science libraries."--Choice
Product Details
408 pages; 21 halftones, 104 line illus.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-517233-1ISBN10: 0-19-517233-7About the Author(s)
Thomas J. Stohlgren is Invasive Species Science Branch Chief, U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center, and Senior Scientist and Affiliate Faculty Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University.
