A.W. Kuchler
Encyclopedia
A. W. Kuchler is an American
geographer
and naturalist who is noted for developing a plant association
system in widespread use in the USA. Some of this database has become digitized for integration into GIS mapping systems.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
and naturalist who is noted for developing a plant association
Phytocoenosis
Plant community is a collection of plant species within a designated geographical unit, which forms a relatively uniform patch, distinguishable from neighbouring patches of different vegetation types. The components of each plant community are influenced by soil type, topography, climate and human...
system in widespread use in the USA. Some of this database has become digitized for integration into GIS mapping systems.