Plant Succession: Theory and predictionD.C. Glenn-Lewin, R.K. Peet, T.T. Veblen 'Succession' is the term used to describe the phenomenon of changes in vegetational types in both time and space. The subject of the colonization and exploitation of 'new' areas by plants is a key one in ecology and this book summarizes the theoretical arguments currently raging about the topic. |
Contents
II | 1 |
III | 11 |
V | 12 |
VI | 18 |
VII | 23 |
VIII | 29 |
IX | 35 |
X | 42 |
XXXVIII | 196 |
XXXIX | 198 |
XL | 200 |
XLI | 203 |
XLII | 210 |
XLIII | 211 |
XLIV | 215 |
XLV | 217 |
XI | 44 |
XII | 60 |
XV | 77 |
XVI | 86 |
XVII | 89 |
XVIII | 92 |
XIX | 103 |
XXI | 108 |
XXII | 110 |
XXIII | 117 |
XXIV | 122 |
XXV | 138 |
XXVI | 140 |
XXVII | 152 |
XXIX | 157 |
XXX | 165 |
XXXI | 174 |
XXXII | 175 |
XXXIII | 176 |
XXXIV | 188 |
XXXV | 190 |
XXXVI | 192 |
XXXVII | 194 |
Common terms and phrases
abundance Academic Press Amer biomass Bonan Botkin Breckland Canad canopy trees Chapter Christensen climate change colonization Colorado Front Range competition Connell cycles disturbance regimes diversity dominant Ecol ecological succession Ecology ecosystem effects environment environmental example factors fire forest succession frequency gap creation gap models germination Glenn-Lewin gradient grassland growth herbivores Holocene increase interactions landscape Markov matrix mechanisms Monogr mortality Natural Disturbance niche nutrient old fields patterns Peet Pickett pine plant communities plant succession plot pollen population prairie prediction Prentice primary succession processes propagules quadrats Quaternary rainforest recruitment regeneration relative resource response role scale secondary succession seed banks seed dispersal seed germination seedling shrublands Shugart simulated Slatyer spatial stand structure studies successional successional change taxa Tilman tion transition probabilities tree species treefall tropical Univ Valk van der Valk variation Veblen Vegetatio vegetation change vegetation dynamics Vitousek Walker Webb wetlands Whittaker