Bøger i Cambridge Studies in Ecology serien

Deserts provide a seemingly hostile environment in which plants can, nevertheless, survive and grow. This book, originally published in 1992, considers the ecological strategies adopted by desert succulents to overcome these problems.

This book, originally published in 1985, provides a critical and selective review of lichen physiological ecology. The book will be of interest to students and research workers in plant ecology, plant physiology and lichenology.

Ecological problems involve numerous variables, individuals and samples. Multivariate techniques allow the summary of large, complex sets of data and provide the means to tackle many problems that cannot be investigated experimentally. This book describes three methodologies from a theoretical and practical viewpoint: direct gradient, ordination, and classification.