GRADIENT ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION*

Biological ReviewsVolume 42, Issue 2 p. 207-264 GRADIENT ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION* R. H. WHITTAKER, R. H. WHITTAKER Department of Population and Environmental Biology, University of California, IrvineSearch for more papers by this author R. H. WHITTAKER, R. H. WHITTAKER Department of Population and Environmental Biology, University of California, IrvineSearch for more papers by this author First published: May 1967 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1967.tb01419.xCitations: 957 *A contribution from the ecology programme Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, N.Y., under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 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