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Every map that shows differences of vegetation implies a classification, and one might argue that every vegetation map is an application of the classification which a particular author happens to choose. This leads to the conclusion that the relation between classifying and mapping vegetation is that of a sequence in which the first item (classification) is arrived at more or less arbitrarily, whereas the second item (vegetation map) expresses the first one cartographically.
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Küchler, A.W. (1988). The Classification of Vegetation. In: Küchler, A.W., Zonneveld, I.S. (eds) Vegetation mapping. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3083-4_7
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