Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem PropertiesPlant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes, which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics. This second edition uses evidence from many parts of the world to re-examine these concepts in the light of the enormous expansion in the literature. Features include: * A new section covering all aspects of ecosystem properties * New chapters on Assembling of Communities Rarification and Extinction Colonisation and Invasion * Principles and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples * Chapter summaries for a quick reference guide * Index of species names Written in a very readable style, this book is an invaluable reference source for researchers in the areas of plant, animal, and community ecology, conservation and land management. 'Written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, summarising over 35 years of research. A book all plant ecologists will want to read.' - Jonathan Silvertown, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, UK. 'The coverage is outstanding and comprehensive.' - Simon A. Levin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA |
Contents
Primary Strategies in the Established Phase | 3 |
Ruderals | 80 |
Predictions arising from the CSR model | 87 |
Tests of the CSR model | 94 |
Reconciliation of C S and Rselection with the theory of r | 110 |
Secondary Strategies in the Established Phase | 116 |
Stresstolerant ruderals | 124 |
Triangular ordination hard and soft attributes | 133 |
II The matrix approach | 213 |
a comparison | 226 |
Primary succession | 239 |
Changes in vegetation stability and species richness during secondary | 254 |
Coexistence | 257 |
A general model | 292 |
Analogous phenomena involving animals | 299 |
Two examples | 305 |
Types of regenerative strategy | 139 |
The role of animals in regeneration | 165 |
Regeneration failure | 172 |
Dominance | 179 |
Dominant effects of herbaceous perennials upon tree seedlings | 187 |
Success and failure in dominant plants | 194 |
Introduction | 199 |
Effects of plant strategies on trophic structure | 311 |
Effects of plant strategies on productivity | 322 |
Effects of plant strategies on stability and sustainability | 335 |
References | 349 |
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Popular passages
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