Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology Author:Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Heinz Ellenberg This book was written 30 years ago as the first synthesis of European and Anglo-American methods in vegetation ecology. Upon its publication in 1974, it rapidly became the standard text for the study of vegetation in over 60 US colleges and universities. An unsolicited review appeared in Ecology 56: 1233 with the title Getting it all together ... more »in Plant Synecology. The book also received wide international acceptance. After seven re-printings, the original publisher declared the book "out-of-print".« less