Temporal and spatial patterns of vegetation dynamics

List of contents

Vegetation dynamics: patterns in time and space.- On the ecology and evolution of annual plants in disturbed environments.- Background processes at the population level during succession in grasslands on sand.- Influence of climate and community composition on the population demography of pasture species in semi-arid Australia.- Linear trend in multi-species time series.- Gaps in the canopy: the missing dimension in vegetation dynamics.- A reappraisal of cyclical processes in Calluna heath.- Forest decline: endogenous dynamics, tree defenses, and the elimination of spurious correlation.- Factors in Pinus ponderosa and Calocedrus decurrens mortality in Yosemite Valley, USA.- Stand-level dieback and regeneration of forests in the Galápagos Islands.- Mechanisms of succession on fallow lands.- An experimental study of old-field succession in relation to different environmental factors.- Succession, regeneration and fluctuation in the Bialowicza Forest (NE Poland).- Plant population dynamics and species turnover on small islands near Karpathos (South Aegean, Greece).- Vascular plant colonization and vegetation development on sea-born volcanic islands in the Aegean (Greece).- Vegetation development on the outer islands of the Bothnian Bay.- Primary succession over sixty years on hundred-year old islets in Lake Hjälmaren, Sweden.- The dynamics of the dune vegetation on the Polish Baltic coast.- Vegetation dynamics of the savannization process on Cuba.- Successional pathways of Mediterranean evergreen vegetation on Sicily.- Species diversity of mainland- and island forests in the Pacific area.

Product details

• Assisted by: E. van der Maarel (Editor), Eddy Van Der Maarel (Editor), J. Miles (Editor), Schmidt (Editor), W Schmidt (Editor), W. Schmidt (Editor), E van der Maarel (Editor), E. van der Maarel (Editor), Eddy van der Maarel (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9780792301035
• ISBN: 978-0-7923-0103-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 297 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 758 g
• Illustrations: 200 p.
• Series: Advances in Vegetation Science; Advances in Vegetation Science, Volume 9; Advances in Vegetation Science
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany