<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Updated from the highly regarded first edition, <i>Vegetation, Description & Analysis: A Practical Approach 2nd edition</i> is a manual of techniques of vegetation description and analysis which takes a non mathematical approach with an emphasis on the practical and ecological aspects of the subject. With new material on:</span></p> <ul> <li> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nature of plant communities</span></span></div> </li> <li> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Transitional areas between plant communities</span></span></div> </li> <li> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Induction and deduction of plant ecology, diversity indices an dominance diversity curves</span></span></div> </li> <li> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Multivariate analysis in ecology</span></span></div> </li> </ul> <p> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This text is intended for plant ecologists and biogeographers, undergraduates in biological science, environmental science and geography and postgraduate Masters degree courses.</span></span></p>