Books in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book Series series

Presents understanding of how the world's vegetation, both natural and managed, is interacting with global environmental change and describes both the impacts of global change on key aspects of vegetation and the consequent feedbacks of these effects to further environmental change.

This 1997 book describes approaches and methods for grouping species with similar characteristics into functional types in ways which maximise our potential to predict accurately the responses of real vegetation with real species diversity.