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Author Meiners, Scott J., 1970- author.

Title An integrative approach to successional dynamics : tempo and mode of vegetation change / Scott J. Meiners, Eastern Illinois University, USA, Steward T.A. Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, NY, USA, Mary L. Cadenasso, University of California, Davis, USA.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Goals, concepts and definitions -- History and context of the Buell-Small succession study -- Succession theory -- Conceptual frameworks and integration: drivers and theory -- Community patterns and dynamics -- Dynamics of populations through succession -- Impacts of drought and other disturbances on succession -- Dynamics of diversity -- Convergence and community assembly -- Successional equivalence of native and non-native species -- Heterogeneity in dynamic systems -- The functional ecology of community dynamics -- Succession, habitat management and restoration -- Where we stand: lessons and opportunities.
Summary Much of what is considered conventional wisdom about succession is not as clear cut as it is generally believed. Yet, the importance of succession in ecology is undisputed since it offers a real insight into the dynamics and structure of all plant communities. Part monograph and part conceptual treatise, An Integrative Approach to Successional Dynamics presents a unifying conceptual framework for dynamic plant communities and uses a unique long-term data set to explore the utility of that framework. The fourteen chapters, each written in a nontechnical style and accompanied by numerous illustrations and examples, cover diverse aspects of succession, including: community, population and disturbance dynamics, diversity, community assembly, heterogeneity, functional ecology and biological invasion. This unique text will be a great source of reference for researchers and graduate students in ecology and plant biology and others with an interest in the subject.
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Subject Vegetation dynamics.
Vegetation dynamics.
Plant succession.
Plant succession.
Plant communities.
Plant communities.
Indexed Term plantenecologie
plant ecology
vegetatie
vegetation
plantensuccessie
plant succession
plantengemeenschappen
plant communities
ecologische successie
ecological succession
population ecology
populatiebiologie
population biology
ecologie
ecology
Plant Ecology
Ecology (General)
Plantenecologie
Ecologie (algemeen)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pickett, Steward T., 1950- author.
Cadenasso, Mary L., author.
Other Form: Meiners, Scott J., 1970- Integrative approach to successional dynamics. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9780521116428 (DLC) 2014035278 (OCoLC)891185699
ISBN 9781316317945 (electronic book)
1316317943 (electronic book)
9780511844218 (electronic book)
0511844212 (electronic book)
9781316327982
1316327981
9781316287095
1316287092
9780521116428 (alkaline paper)
0521116422 (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1017/CBO9780511844218