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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792266403321

Autore

Stohlgren Thomas J

Titolo

Measuring Plant Diversity [[electronic resource] ] : Lessons from the Field

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-988380-7

1-4356-3049-1

1-281-15647-7

9786611156473

0-19-972143-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Disciplina

581.7

Soggetti

Botany -- Methodology

Plant diversity

Botany

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Botany - General

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

Contents; Foreword; PART I: THE PAST AND PRESENT; 1. Introduction; 2. History and Background, Baggage and Direction; 3. A Frameworkfor the Design of Plant Diversity Studies; PART II: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO SAMPLING; 4. Single-Scale Sampling; 5. Multiscale Sampling; 6. Comparing Multiscale Sampling Designs: Taking an Experimental Approach; 7. Case Study: Comparing Rangeland Vegetation Sampling Techniques; PART III: SCALING TO LANDSCAPES; 8. Case Study on Multiphase and Multiscale Sampling

9. Case Study: Designing a Monitoring Program for Assessing Patterns of Plant Diversity in Forests Nationwide10. Case Study: Patterns of Plant Invasions in Forests and Grasslands; 11. Case Study: Evaluating the Effects of Grazing and Soil Characteristics on Plant Diversity; 12. Case Study: Assessments of Plant Diversity in Arid Landscapes; PART IV: MODELING PATTERNS OF PLANT DIVERSITY; 13. Nonspatial Statistical Modeling of Plant Diversity; 14. Spatial Analysis and Modeling; PART V:



MONITORING PLANT DIVERSITY; 15. Concepts for Assessing Temporal Changes in Plant Diversity

16. Case Study: Monitoring Shifts in Plant Diversity in Response to Climate ChangePART VI: RESEARCH NEEDS; 17. Case Study: Testing a Nested-Intensity Sampling Design; 18. Quantifying Trends in Space and Time; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; P; Q; R; S; V; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V

Sommario/riassunto

Presenting sampling approaches, designs and field techniques for measuring plant diversity, this book lays out a range of methods for mapping and measuring species diversity.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972340903321

Titolo

Conserving Walt Whitman's fame : selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919 / / edited by Gary Schmidgall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006

ISBN

9781609380021

1609380029

9781587296758

1587296756

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (479 p.)

Collana

Iowa Whitman series

Altri autori (Persone)

SchmidgallGary <1945->

TraubelHorace <1858-1919.>

Disciplina

811/.3

B

Soggetti

Poets, American - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on the Text; Acknowledgments; Tonic Emanation: Walt Whitman in the Conservator; 1. Horace Traubel's Editorial Style, Credos, and Worldview; 2. Memoirs of Walt, Leaves of Grass,and the Whitman Circle; 3. Topical Articles on Whitman; 4. Publisherial: Reviews and Notices of Whitman Editions; 5. The Whitman Wars: Rejecters, Defenders, Reception; 6. Sex Morality; 7. Fillers and Squibs: A Whitman



and Traubel Potpourri; 8. The Whitman Centennial Issue,May 1919; Finalé; Appendix 1. Topical Articles on Whitman in the Conservator; Appendix 2. Libraries Holding the Conservator; Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is now difficult to imagine that, in the years before Whitman's death in 1892, there was real doubt in the minds of Whitman and his literary circle whether Leaves of Grass would achieve lasting fame. Much of the critical commentary in the first decade after his burial in Camden was as negative as that in Boston's Christian Register, which spoke of Whitman as someone who "succeeded in writing a mass of trash without form, rhythm, or vitality."That the balance finally tipped toward admiration, culminating in Whitman's acceptance into the literary canon, was due substantially to the unflagging