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Wisconsin Comparative Ordination

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Ordination of Plant Communities

Part of the book series: Handbook of Vegetation Science ((HAVS,volume 5-2))

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Some of the earliest work in vegetational ordination was done at the University of Wisconsin more than twenty years ago. Since that time there has been a continuous increase in the use of various types of ordination procedures in vegetation studies. With wider usage of the approach have come better understanding and more formal mathematical techniques. The increasing capacity and availability of computers have promoted use of multivariate analytic methods in ecological research.

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Cottam, G., Goff, F.G., Whittaker, R.H. (1978). Wisconsin Comparative Ordination. In: Whittaker, R.H. (eds) Ordination of Plant Communities. Handbook of Vegetation Science, vol 5-2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7989-5_7

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