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|a Burrows, C.J.
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|a Processes of Vegetation Change
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|a 1 The nature of vegetation and kinds of vegetation change -- Kinds of organisms comprising the vegetation -- Plant populations -- Properties of vegetation -- Vegetation classification and terminology -- The vegetation continuum -- Why study vegetation change? -- Observing vegetation change -- Styles of vegetation change -- 2 Plants and their abiotic environment -- The environmental complex -- Plant variables -- Productivity -- The role of physical and chemical variables -- Master factors -- Factor gradients -- Stress -- Disturbance -- Plants in their environment -- Changes in environments -- 3 Plants and their biotic environment -- Regeneration and plant populations -- Ecophysiological amplitude -- Differences between plant species -- Plant-neighbour relationships -- Plant senescence -- Ecological niches -- Conclusions -- 4 Vegetation development on volcanic ejecta -- Surtsey, Iceland -- Krakatau, Indonesia -- Mount Tarawera, New Zealand -- Mauna Loa and Kilauea, Hawaii, USA -- Some conclusions -- 5 Vegetation development on sand dunes -- The Indiana dunes, Lake Michigan, USA -- The Manawatu dunes, New Zealand -- Some Australian dunes -- Some conclusions -- 6 Vegetation development on glacial deposits -- Glacier Bay, Alaska, USA -- Glacier moraines in other localities in North America -- Direct colonization of moraines by trees -- Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand -- Suggestions about causes of the vegetation changes -- Some conclusions -- 7 Influences of strong environmental pressures -- Deserts of the warm temperate to subtropic zones -- Grasslands and drought -- Rock outcrops -- Temperate alpine regions -- Subpolar regions — the Arctic tundra -- Protected coasts and estuaries subject to tidal influences -- Other extreme soil conditions -- Grazing -- Fire -- Disturbances in confined areas -- Some conclusions -- 8 Patterns of vegetation change in wetlands -- Lakes -- Mires -- Water conditions -- Peat mire stratigraphy -- Some British and Scandinavian mires -- Mires in the southern Great Lakes region, North America -- Stratigraphic studies of British mires -- Indications of interruptions of mire sequential development -- ‘Phasic regeneration cycles’ in bogs -- Vegetation change processes in wetlands -- Some conclusions -- 9 Changes in some temperate forests after disturbance -- The mixed forests of eastern North America -- The different scales of disturbance -- Sprouts and regeneration -- Revegetation of abandoned farmland -- Actual records of population changes -- The development of old-growth forest stands -- Some conclusions -- 10 Changes in some tropical forests -- Forest structure and diversity -- Forest species structure -- Maintenance of the diversity of tree species in the vegetation -- Diversity, communities and mature forest -- 11 Processes of vegetation change -- Colonization of unvegetated areas -- Population changes of woody species on abandoned fields -- Sequences in other localities -- The causes of continued changes in woody plant populations -- Physiological ecology of juveniles -- Niches -- Maintenance of mature forest -- Influences of other biota -- Some community properties -- Some conclusions -- 12 Community phenomena in vegetation change -- Older theory on succession to climax -- The orthodox succession to climax theory -- Holism and determinism in succession theory -- Reductionism versus determinism -- Ecosystem nutrient budgets -- Plant community and climax concepts -- Predictability and convergence in succession -- Problems with the climax concept -- The kinetic concept -- Individual plant lifestyles (‘strategies’) -- Causes for sequential replacements -- Community stability -- Mathematical and modelling approaches to community development -- Fluctuations and cycles -- Problems with the succession concept -- 13 On the theory of vegetation change -- Important recent vegetation change literature -- Holism versus reductionism -- Problems with ideas on ‘succession to climax’ -- Problems with ideas on stability and ‘climax’ -- ‘Kinetic’ ideas on vegetation dynamics -- Formulating a theory of vegetation change: the essential problems -- A theory of vegetation change -- New theory in relation to orthodox theory -- Requirements for further research -- The past, present and future of natural vegetation and human relationships with it -- References.
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