[APWG] BOOK: Measuring Plant Diversity

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/usgs-mpd112806.php

Measuring plant diversity, predicting vulnerability to invasive species

Rapidly invading plant species from other countries are affecting 
rangeland conditions and wildlife habitat, forcing more native plants into 
threatened and endangered status and changing natural wildfire regimes. 
Because resident native diversity can affect the likelihood of invasion by 
non-native plants, it is critical that scientists accurately assess the 
composition of plant communities over large areas. A newly released book 
by USGS ecologist Tom Stohlgren, Measuring Plant Diversity: Lessons from 
the Field (Oxford University Press, 2006), presents field and analysis 
methods that can more accurately describe plant biodiversity and help 
evaluate vulnerability to invasion.

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