Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics
An agglomerative cluster analysis and a principal components analysis of habitat, based on 27 quantitative soil variables, are compared with a Braun-Blanquet classification of the vegetation of the Manyeleti Game Reserve in the eastern Transvaal. The results indicate that these techniques can be suc...
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| author | G. J. Bredenkamp G. K. Theron D. R. J. van Vuuren |
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| description | An agglomerative cluster analysis and a principal components analysis of habitat, based on 27 quantitative soil variables, are compared with a Braun-Blanquet classification of the vegetation of the Manyeleti Game Reserve in the eastern Transvaal. The results indicate that these techniques can be successfully used to obtain relatively homogeneous habitat classes, characterized by sets of environmental (soil) variables and not only single variables individually, and which are furthermore significantly correlated with the recognized plant communities of the area. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3761d645393641cf87219afc0b58dc902022-12-21T18:26:54ZengSouth African National Biodiversity InstitutBothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation0006-82412311-92841983-11-01143/469169910.4102/abc.v14i3/4.12291156Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristicsG. J. Bredenkamp0G. K. Theron1D. R. J. van Vuuren2Department of Botany. University of the NorthDepartment of Botany. University of PretoriaDepartment of Botany. University of the NorthAn agglomerative cluster analysis and a principal components analysis of habitat, based on 27 quantitative soil variables, are compared with a Braun-Blanquet classification of the vegetation of the Manyeleti Game Reserve in the eastern Transvaal. The results indicate that these techniques can be successfully used to obtain relatively homogeneous habitat classes, characterized by sets of environmental (soil) variables and not only single variables individually, and which are furthermore significantly correlated with the recognized plant communities of the area.https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/1229 |
| spellingShingle | G. J. Bredenkamp G. K. Theron D. R. J. van Vuuren Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation |
| title | Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics |
| title_full | Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics |
| title_fullStr | Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics |
| title_short | Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics |
| title_sort | ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics |
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