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Mapping Environments

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Plant and Vegetation Mapping

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Environmental mapping is a kind of synthetic cartography that attempts to consider the total of all possible ecological factors (physical, biological and anthropogenic) and to obtain a synthetic and unique representation of the environment (Ozenda 1974, 1975, 1986).

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Pedrotti, F. (2013). Mapping Environments. In: Plant and Vegetation Mapping. Geobotany Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30235-0_14

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