Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes and Ecosystem Properties

Informationen zum Autor John Philip Grime FRS is a prominent British ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield. Klappentext Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition , is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes , which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics. This second edition uses evidence from many parts of the world to re-examine these concepts in the light of the enormous expansion in the literature. Features include A new section covering all aspects of ecosystem properties New chapters on Assembling of Communities Rarification and Extinction Colonisation and Invasion Principles and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples Chapter summaries for a quick refernce guide Index of species names Written in a very readable style, this book is an invaluable reference source for researchers in the areas of plant, animal, and community ecology, conservation and land management. 'Written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, summarising over 35 years of research. A book all plant ecologists will want to read.' - Jonathan Silvertown, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, UK. 'The coverage is outstanding and comprehensive.' - Simon A. Levin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA Zusammenfassung Proposes 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.

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Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes, which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics. This second edition uses evidence from many parts of the world to re-examine these concepts in the light of the enormous expansion in the literature.
Features include

• A new section covering all aspects of ecosystem properties
• New chapters on
  Assembling of Communities
  Rarification and Extinction
  Colonisation and Invasion
• Principles and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples
• Chapter summaries for a quick refernce guide

• Index of species names Written in a very readable style, this book is an invaluable reference source for researchers in the areas of plant, animal, and community ecology, conservation and land management. 'Written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, summarising over 35 years of research. A book all plant ecologists will want to read.' - Jonathan Silvertown, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, UK.

  'The coverage is outstanding and comprehensive.' - Simon A. Levin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA

Résumé
Proposes 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.

Contenu

Preface. Preface to First Edition. Introduction. Chapter Summaries. PLANT STRATEGIES. Primary Strategies in the Established Phase. Secondary Strategies in the Established Phase. Regenerative Strategies. PLANT STRATEGIES AND VEGETATION PROCESSES. Dominance. Assembling of Communities. Rarification and Extinction. Colonisation and Invasion. Succession. Co existence. PLANT STRATEGIES AND ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES. Trophic Structure, Productivity, and Stability. References. Species list. Index.