Vegetation dynamics

by Miles, John

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Title Statements

Full title :Vegetation dynamics / John Miles.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1979.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Chapman and Hall, Distributed in the USA by Halsted Press, Wiley
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1979.

The Physical Object

Description:80 pages : : illustrations, maps, graphs, tables ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0470265043, 9780470265048, 0412155303, 9780412155307
oclc:ocm04194336
LC Classification:QK910
Dewey Decimal:581.5/24

The nature of vegetation. Ubiquity of changes in time ; Variation in space ; The nature of vegetation in time -- Processes of vegetation change. Initiation of successions and fluctuations ; Immigration of species ; Establishment ; Competition ; Site modification ; Stabilization -- Fluctuations. Definitions of vegetation change ; Phenological changes ; Changes with fluctuations in environment -- Regeneration and cyclic changes -- Primary successions. Successions on submerged and waterlogged soils ; Succession behind retreating glaciers -- Secondary successions. The course of secondary succession ; Factors determining the course of secondary succession ; Predictability of secondary succession -- Changes caused by grazing animals.

Subjects

42.44 geobotany and plant ecology ecological succession Écologie ecology Onderzoek Pflanzengesellschaft Plant communities Plant ecology Plant succession Plantenecologie plantengemeenschappen plantensuccessie Populationsdynamik Research vegetatie vegetation Végétation -- Dynamique Vegetation dynamics