This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics
objectives methods and applications including conservation and management tasks. These
require study at different temporal and spatial scales often simultaneously. Methodology is
important in science since it responds to particular questions and raises others. It is also
closely related to the scale of investigation. Chapters in this book illustrate this
interdependence even in basic tasks such as vegetation sampling and description measurements
and mapping. Individual chapters present globally applicable systems regional syntheses and
local analyses and applications plus conceptual methodologies including currently debated hot
topics. Vegetation types treated include tropical rainforests temperate forests dry steppes
and scrub and local turf sedge and moss communities. There are also chapters on re-vegetation
woodlot management ecology of an invasive species and trajectory planning in conservation.
This book will be useful to both students and practitioners for its reviews and examples and
as a potential textbook suitable for graduate-level courses and seminars.
