Plant Demography in Vegetation Succession

ISBN-13: 9780792310600 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 210 str.

Krystyna Falinska; K. Falinska

Opis

Synthesizes the results of a 15-year study of plant populations in the course of forest succession in abandoned meadows in the Bialowieza Forest of eastern Poland. Analyzes the transformation of vegetation at different organizational levels, interpreting it as a dynamic equilibrium between various p

Spis treści

1: Theoretical and Methodical Fundamentals.- 1. Introduction and Aim.- 2. Assumptions and Terminology.- 3. Study Area and Methodological Basis.- 2: Vegetation Dynamics.- 4. Old and Present Diversity of the Reski Range Vegetation.- 5. Sequence of Species.- 6. Course of Secondary Succession.- 3: Biological Mechanisms of Species Turnover.- 7. Individual and Succession.- 8. Plant Traits and Species Turnover.- 9. Role of Species in the Succession Process.- 10. Recapitulation: Succession as a Plant-By-Plant Replacement Process.- 4: Plant Demography and Population Dynamics.- 11. Succession as the Result of Demographic Processes.- 12. Reproduction and Succession.- 13. Population Spatial Structure Dynamics During Succession.- 14. Population Individual-Size Structure in Succession Processes.- 15. Recapitulation: Population Size and Population Changes.- 5 (Synthesis): Population Dynamics and Vegetation Dynamics.- 16. Succession: A Population Process.- 17. Plant Strategies in Secondary Successions.- 18. Mechanisms of Succession.- 19. Spatial Variations.- 20. Return of Forest in Meadows — Causes, Mechanisms, Processes.- Systematic Index.