Numerical syntaxonomy

Proceedings of part of the Symposium `Numerical Syntaxonomy and Syndynamics' held in Unovce near Galanta, Slovakia, May 18-23, 1987 Front Matter....Pages i-v Twenty years of numerical syntaxonomy....Pages 1-15 An outline for data analysis in phytosociology: past and present....Pages 17-28 Influences of the individualistic concept of vegetation on syntaxonomy....Pages 29-39 Similarity measures for structured data: a general framework and some applications to vegetation data....Pages 41-60 New combinatorial clustering methods....Pages 61-77 On the use of grammars in vegetation analysis....Pages 79-94 A new numerical solution to traditional phytosociological tabular classification....Pages 95-106 Syntaxonomy of the Onopordum acanthium communities in temperate and continental Europe....Pages 107-115 A coenocline of the high-ranked syntaxa of ruderal vegetation....Pages 117-125 Ecological species groups in forest communities in South Belgium....Pages 127-135 On the delimitation of the Mesobromion and Xerobromion in Belgium and French Lorraine....Pages 137-144 Classification of South Swedish Isoetid vegetation with the help of numerical methods....Pages 145-157 Syntaxonomy of the Australian mangai refined through iterative ordinations....Pages 159-168 Numerical revision of the Fagion illyricum alliance....Pages 169-180 Numerical syntaxonomy of the tall-forb and tall-grass communities in the Tatra Mountains....Pages 181-187 Partitioning an elevation gradient of vegetation from southeastern Ethiopia by probabilistic methods....Pages 189-198 Numerical phytosociology of the subalpine belt of the Kazbegi region, Caucasus, USSR....Pages 199-208 Phytogeographical analysis of a treeline community in northern Yukon (NW-Canada)....Pages 209-215