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Using Information Statistics to Study the Ecology of Vegetation and Dynamic Processes of the Earth’s Vegetation Cover

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Methods for the ecological and geographical analysis of vegetation, as part of the method of diversity, which make it possible to identify the main botanical–geographical relationships and determine the dynamic processes of vegetation, are considered. These methods can be used at different structural levels of vegetation: global, regional, landscape, and even cenotic.

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  1. Botanical Garden-Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690024, Vladivostok, Primorskii krai, Russia

    B. S. Petropavlovsky

  2. Pacific Geographical Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690014, Vladivostok, Primorskii krai, Russia

    L. I. Varchenko

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Petropavlovsky, B.S., Varchenko, L.I. Using Information Statistics to Study the Ecology of Vegetation and Dynamic Processes of the Earth’s Vegetation Cover. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 14, 209–217 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425521030100

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