Population Biology of PlantsPopulation Biology of Plants defines a science of population biology for plants and other fixed organisms. The author describes the processes that determine the number of plants (and the number of plant parts), examines the separate stages in a general model of population behavior, the ways in which individual plants interfere with each others growth and risk of death and aspects of the behavior of animals that influence or determine the size of plant populations. |
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Experiments Analogies and Models | 1 |
Dispersal Dormancy and Recruitment | 31 |
The Seed Rain | 33 |
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achenes animals annual annual plants assimilation rate behaviour canopy changes Chapter clonal clover colonization competition crop curves cycle death defoliation density stress determined dispersal distribution dormancy dry weight effects environment experiment experimental favoured flowering forest fronds genetic genotypes germination grass grassland grazing growing growth rate habitats Harper harvest increase individuals interaction leaf area Leaf Area Index leaves light intensity Lolium perenne mature mixture monocarpic monophagous mortality natural neighbours nitrogen number of plants number of seeds nutrients occur pasture pathogens perennial period phase Pinus plant population plant weight plots polymorphism polyphagous population biology predators produced pure stands ramets Ranunculus recruitment relationship relative reproductive rhizome root system rosettes season seed bank seed production seedlings selection shoots soil surface sowing sown species stage survival survivorship survivorship curves sward tillers tion trees Trifolium repens Trifolium subterraneum variation vegetation weed yield