Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics | Zendy

G.J. Bredenkamp | Zendy; G.K. Theron | Zendy; D. R. J. Van Vuuren | Zendy

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Ecological interpretation of plant communities by classification and ordination of quantitative soil characteristics

Author(s) -

G.J. Bredenkamp,

G.K. Theron,

D. R. J. Van Vuuren

Publication year - 1983

Publication title -

bothalia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 2311-9284

pISSN - 0006-8241

DOI - 10.4102/abc.v14i3/4.1229

Subject(s) - ordination , habitat , plant community , principal component analysis , vegetation (pathology) , geography , ecology , vegetation classification , phytosociology , gradient analysis , hierarchical clustering , environmental science , soil science , cluster analysis , mathematics , ecological succession , statistics , biology , medicine , pathology

An agglomerative cluster analysis and a principal components analysis of habitat, based on 27 quantitative soil variables, are compared with a Braun-Blanquet classification of the vegetation of the Manyeleti Game Reserve in the eastern Transvaal. The results indicate that these techniques can be successfully used to obtain relatively homogeneous habitat classes, characterized by sets of environmental (soil) variables and not only single variables individually, and which are furthermore significantly correlated with the recognized plant communities of the area.

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