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This chapter summarizes the new insights on how to do a forest vegetation survey under particular conditions defined by aims, traditions, and local conditions. It addresses the issues of the logistics of field sampling, detail of the field surveys, handling legacy (historical) data, pitfalls of numerical data-analyses, problems of modelling the distribution of vegetation types, vagaries of interpretations of the revealed vegetation patterns, and presentation of the outcomes.
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Mucina, L. (2018). Lessons for a Forest Vegetation Survey. In: Vegetation Survey and Classification of Subtropical Forests of Southern Africa. Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67831-3_7
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