An integrative approach to successional dynamics : tempo and mode of vegetation change /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meiners, Scott J.
Other Authors: Pickett, Steward T A., Cadenasso, Mary L.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Vegetation dynamics.
Plant succession.
Plant communities.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=X5beBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=aan+integrated+approach+to+successional+dynamics+tempo+and+mode+of+vegetation+change&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6jJK5y7PWAhVHP48KHUzZBPsQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Goals, concepts and definitions
  • History and context of the Buell-Small succession study
  • Succession theory
  • Conceptual frameworks and integration: drivers and theory
  • Community patterns and dynamics
  • Dynamics of populations through succession
  • Impacts of drought and other disturbances on succession
  • Dynamics of diversity
  • Convergence and community assembly
  • Successional equivalence of native and non-native species
  • Heterogeneity in dynamic systems
  • The functional ecology of community dynamics
  • Succession, habitat management and restoration
  • Where we stand: lessons and opportunities.

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