Title: Classification and Ordination of Seral Plant Communities
Abstract:A conceptual model of secondary succession was tested with data from disturbed vegetation in theAgropyron/Poa habitat type using a combination of classification and ordination techniques.Individual st...A conceptual model of secondary succession was tested with data from disturbed vegetation in theAgropyron/Poa habitat type using a combination of classification and ordination techniques.Individual stands were classified into communities by an agglomerative method.Results of the Bray-Curtis polar ordination using three endpoint selection methods supported the validity of the model.The model is visualized as a solid cone in which all of the plant communities included in a habitat type are positioned relative to their degree of disturbance, inferring their probably secondary successional pattern within habitat types.Read More