The concepts of diagnostic species and fidelity have been used frequently in European
phytosociology but rarely in North American vegetation classification. We developed a …

Question: How can the US National Vegetation Classification (USNVC) serve as an effective
tool for classifying and mapping vegetation, and inform assessments and monitoring …

This article provides guidelines for the description, documentation, and review of proposals
for new or revised plant associations and alliances to be recognized as units of vegetation …

Purpose: The purpose of the Carolina Vegetation Survey (CVS) is to provide a framework for
characterization of natural plant communities throughout North and South Carolina and …

Abstract Aims Recent work by Kusbach, Shaw & Long (2015, Applied Vegetation Science
18: 158–168) critiqued a system of potential natural vegetation classification widely …

A mid-latitude, Northern Hemisphere alpine vegetation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
was suitable for analysis by syntaxonemie and numerical methods, which interpreted the …

The Beaverhead Mountains Section in southwestern Montana is a complex physical
environment supporting a diverse landscape that is reflected in the number and …

The habitat type system developed by R. Daubenmire has been widely adopted throughout
the western United States. Habitat types result from a site classification derived from the …

The overall objective of this study was to examine patterns of distribution of rare vascular
plant species of the northern Rocky Mountains of Alberta in relation to vegetation type and …

Abstract The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources completed a new classification of
native plant communities for the state of Minnesota in 2003. Researchers used numerical …