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...
Main Authors: | G. J. Bredenkamp, G. K. Theron, D. R. J. van Vuuren |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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South African National Biodiversity Institut
1983-11-01
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Series: | Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation |
Online Access: | https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/1229 |
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