Overview: An up-to-date, modern, well-grounded, comprehensive and authoritative book, supplemented with many colour figures and graphs.Covers the extensive, recently published scientific findings, and lists mor.This up-to-date textbook of global vegetation ecology, which comprises the current state of knowledge, is long overdue and much-needed. It is a translation of the textbook “Vegetation der Erde” (Springer-Spektrum, Heidelberg). A short introductory chapter deals with the fundamentals of vegetation ecology that are of importance for the delimitation and characterization of the global vege
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