Publication Date
1989
Location
Nice France
Description
Vegetation ecology studies help research efforts to improve natural grassland productivity by laying foundations for improvement techniques directed to benefit desired plant communities. Experiments reveal knowledge about the environmental conditions responsible for community structure and productivity, while surveys are a fast and cheap means for exploratory studies. In either case, data interpretation are helped by multivariate methods described by different authors, e.g., Orloci and Kenkel (1985). Our work is aimed to identify the environmental factors most responsible for vegetation variation in natural grasslands, locally known as « campos », and to formulate hypotheses about the effects of fertilization and grazing on the vegetation. The survey approach for this purpose has precedence. For example, Feoli and Orloci (1985) used survey data to identify influential factors in Italian grasslands and Gittins (1965) in British limestone grassland communities.
Citation
P. Pillar, V de; Jacques, A.V A.; and Boldrini, I I., "Environmental Related Variation in a Natural Grassland of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil" (1989). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 18.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1989/session13b/18)
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Environmental Related Variation in a Natural Grassland of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nice France
Vegetation ecology studies help research efforts to improve natural grassland productivity by laying foundations for improvement techniques directed to benefit desired plant communities. Experiments reveal knowledge about the environmental conditions responsible for community structure and productivity, while surveys are a fast and cheap means for exploratory studies. In either case, data interpretation are helped by multivariate methods described by different authors, e.g., Orloci and Kenkel (1985). Our work is aimed to identify the environmental factors most responsible for vegetation variation in natural grasslands, locally known as « campos », and to formulate hypotheses about the effects of fertilization and grazing on the vegetation. The survey approach for this purpose has precedence. For example, Feoli and Orloci (1985) used survey data to identify influential factors in Italian grasslands and Gittins (1965) in British limestone grassland communities.
