Phytosociology of snowbed and exposed ridge vegetation of Svalbard

摘要

Arctic vegetation still lacks a uniform system to classify its plant communities, the current arrangement of the phytosociological data being difficult to interpret. However, using modern methods, it has proved possible to organize the current data to create a suitable system based on numerical algorithms (detrended correspondence analysis and cluster analysis) and traditional methods for 135 phytosociological relev,s from snowbed and exposed ridge habitats of Svalbard; 125 relev,s were selected