The British National Vegetation Classification or NVC is a system of classifying natural habitat types in Britain according to the vegetation they contain.
A large scientific meeting of ecologists, botanists, and other related professionals in the United Kingdom resulted in the publication of a compendium of five books (British Plant Communities ;ISBN 0-521-79716-0) by Cambridge University Press which detail the incidence of plant species in five...
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The British National Vegetation Classification or NVC is a system of classifying natural habitat types in Britain according to the vegetation they contain.
A large scientific meeting of ecologists, botanists, and other related professionals in the United Kingdom resulted in the publication of a compendium of five books (British Plant Communities ;ISBN 0-521-79716-0) by Cambridge University Press which detail the incidence of plant species in five major habitat types in the United Kingdom's natural environment. They are the first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country. They cover all natural, semi-natural and major artificial habitats in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland), representing fifteen years of research by leading plant ecologists.
From the data collated from the books, a commercial software product called Match was developed which helps to classify vegetation identified into one of the many habitat types found in Great Britain.
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