The Braun-Blanquet Approach

@inproceedings{Westhoff1978TheBA,
  title={The Braun-Blanquet Approach},
  author={Victor Westhoff and Eddy van der Maarel},
  year={1978}
}
We shall, in this last chapter, treat the floristic-sociological or Braun-Blanquet approach to classification and interpretation of communities. 
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