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Although, to some degree, any field method can contribute to either of the two main purposes of vegetation analysis identified in Chapter 1 — descriptive and ecological — and most authors in the past have simply lumped all such methods together leaving the user to sort things out, it is much better in a systematic survey of field methods to deal with those that are more suited to descriptive and ecological purposes separately. This is not to say that there must be a rigid demarcation, but I think that this kind of partitioning is helpful to the student to find his or her way through a number of theoretical concepts and practical approaches towards the method best suited for the precise aim of a particular study.
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Causton, D.R. (1988). Field methods. In: An Introduction to Vegetation Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7981-2_2
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