Open AccessPhytosociological classes of the western Transvaal grassland, South Africa
Author(s) -
H. Bezuidenhout,
G.J. Bredenkamp,
G.K. Theron
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
koedoe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2071-0771
pISSN - 0075-6458
DOI - 10.4102/koedoe.v37i1.322
Subject(s) - ordination , grassland , geography , floristics , phytosociology , vegetation (pathology) , ecology , habitat , table (database) , plant community , vegetation classification , physical geography , forestry , taxon , ecological succession , biology , medicine , pathology , computer science , data mining
A detailed syntaxonomical and synecological account of five newly described phytosociological classes of the western Transvaal, South Africa is given. Using a new large data set classification technique, a synoptic table was compiled from 1 025 releves, representing 114 plant communities. An objective classification technique (TWINSPAN) was used complementary to the Braun-Blanquet methodology. An ordination algorithm (DECORANA) was also applied to the synoptic data set. This indicates the floristic relationships among the classes while the vegetation gradient can be related to the habitat gradient