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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140601303321

Autore

Wildi Otto

Titolo

Data analysis in vegetation ecology [[electronic resource] /] / Otto Wildi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, 2010

ISBN

1-119-96563-2

1-282-68435-3

9786612684357

0-470-66101-1

0-470-66497-5

0-470-66496-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

581.70285

Soggetti

Plant communities - Data processing

Plant communities - Mathematical models

Plant ecology - Data processing

Plant ecology - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Patterns in Vegetation Ecology; 3 Transformation; 4 Multivariate Comparison; 5 Ordination; 6 Classification; 7 Joining Ecological Patterns; 8 Static Explanatory Modelling; 9 Assessing Vegetation Change in Time; 10 Dynamic Modelling; 11 Large Data Sets: Wetland Patterns; 12 Swiss Forests: A Case Study; Appendix A On Using Software; Appendix B Data Sets Used; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Evolving from years of teaching experience by one of the top experts in vegetation ecology, Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology aims to explain the background and basics of mathematical (mainly multivariate) analysis of vegetation data. The book lays out the basic operations involved in the analysis, the underlying hypotheses, aims and points of views. It conveys the message that each step in the calculations has a specific, straightforward meaning and that patterns and processes



known by ecologists often find their counterpart in mathematical operations and functions. The first chapt

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778171103321

Autore

Shafer Byron E

Titolo

The end of Southern exceptionalism [[electronic resource] ] : class, race, and partisan change in the postwar South / / Byron E. Shafer, Richard Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-674-26727-3

0-674-04346-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p. ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnstonRichard <1948->

Disciplina

975.043

Soggetti

Political parties - Southern States

Social classes - Southern States

Southern States Politics and government 1951-

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Nature of the Puzzle -- 2. Economic Development and a Politics of Class -- 3. Legal Desegregation and a Politics of Race -- 4. Class, Race, and Partisan Change -- 5. Social Forces and Partisan Politicians -- 6. Old South, New South, No South? -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950's and pulling everything else in its wake.