| Description |
ix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction and background -- 2. Plant strategies, models, and successional change: a resource-response perspective -- 3. Community composition and trends of dominance and diversity in successional ecosystems -- 4. The environment of successional plants: disentangling causes and consequences -- 5. Recruitment in successional habitats: general trends and specific differences --6. How do plants interact with each other? -- 7. Plant-plant interactions and successional change -- 8. Interaction and the evolution of response breadths and niches -- 9. Ecological and genetic variation in early-successional plants -- 10. Coping with a variable environment: habitat selection and response flexibility -- 11. Physiological trends of successional plants -- 12. Crossing the scales: can we predict community composition from individual species response? -- 13. From fields to forests: forest dynamics and regeneration in a changing environment |
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14. Succession and global change: will there be a shift towards more early-successional systems? |
| Analysis |
Plants Ecology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 280-312 |
| Subject |
Plant ecology.
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Plant succession.
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Vegetation dynamics.
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Ecology.
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Ecosystem.
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Plants.
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| LC no. |
96006155 |
| ISBN |
0521391903 |
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0521398436 (paperback) |
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