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This 1980 volume explains the procedures of the IBP 'check-sheet' survey, which gathered information on how to protect sites and species for future scientific study.
List of contents
Contributors; Foreword; Introduction E. M. Nicholson; Part I. The Choice of the Check-Sheet Approach G. L. Radford; Section 1. Definition of the Task; Section 2. Advantages of the Check-Sheet Approach; Section 3. Special Problems of the Check-Sheet Approach; Section 4. Design and Contents of the Check-Sheet; Part II. Problems of Description and Specification A. R. Clapham and G. L. Radford; Section 1. General Consideration of the Problems; Section 2. Vegetation-Types: 1. Historical background; 2. Methods available for classification and their suitability for various purposes D. Mueller-Dombois and H. Ellenberg; 3. The special problem of tropical forest classification L. J. Webb; 4. Further consideration of the Fosberg system and its value for biological surveys G. L. Radford and A. R. Clapham; 5. Concluding observations on vegetational recording A. R. Clapham; Section 3. Soil Types: 1. Historical background; 2. Problems of soil classification R. F. Isbell; 3. Further comments on soil recording for biological surveys A. R. Clapham; Section 4. Other Recording Problems A. R. Clapham; Part III. Data-Processing and the Storage and Retrieval of Information G. L. Ratford; Part IV. The Outcome of the Check-Sheet Survey R. J. de Boer and G. L. Radford; Part V. Conclusions and Recommendations A. R. Clapham and G. R. Radford; Appendixes; References; Index.
Summary
The IBP 'check-sheet' survey was devised to gather information on how to protect sites and species for future scientific study. This 1980 volume explains the survey's procedures and the problems of securing adequate descriptions of types of vegetation and soil and suitable methods of information storage and retrieval.
