The book has been coveredin contact and there is a neat ownership inscription on the front end paper, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. xviii, 337 pages, indexed and with, bibliographic references. A John Wiley-Interscience Publication. "SUMMARY: An introduction to current statistical topics in community ecology. Presents topics of historical importance (polar ordination); popular topics (diversity indices, including their misuse); powerful statistical tools for analysing ecological patterns (multidimensional scaling). Software contains 21 programs for statistical analysis." (Trove)