Description
Book SynopsisProposes the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics. This title features chapters on Assembling of Communities, Rarification and Extinction, Colonisation and Invasion, Principles and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples.
Table of ContentsPreface xii
Preface to First Edition vii
Introduction xix
Chapter Summaries xxvii
Part I Plant Strategies 1
Chapter 1 Primary Strategies in the Established Phase 3
Chapter 2 Secondary Strategies in the Established Phase 116
Chapter 3 Regenerative Strategies 138
Part II Plant Strategies and Vegetation Process 177
Chapter 4 Dominance 179
Chapter 5 Assembling of Communities 199
Chapter 6 Rarification and Extinction 218
Chapter 7 Colonisation and Invasion 225
Chapter 8 Succession 238
Chapter 9 Co-existence 257
Part III Plant Strategies and Ecosystem Properties 301
Chapter 10 Trophic Structure, Productivity and Stability 303
References 349
Species list 404
Index 410
