Vegetation patterns to characterize stream valleys in Hilly Southern Québec, Canada

✍ Scribed by C. Ansseau

• Book ID: 104621384
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 779 KB
• Volume: 106
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1385-0237
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00045066

✦ Synopsis

Patterns in vegetation landscapes depend on a complex interplay between processes operating at various scales in time and space. Large-scale variations in environmental factors such as climate and landforms set a background in which smaller local-scale processes are involved. Disturbances superimpose variations on environmental factors and are also dependent on these. Stream valleys of hilly land in Southern Qu6bec have been examined at different scales. Vegetation landscape units have been characterized at the level of landform (vegetation pattern), topographic gradient (geosigmassociation) and ecosite (synassociation). Extension of the methodology up to biogeographical units and practical applications are considered.