Vegetation ecology
Written by leading experts from four continents, this up-to-date, innovative text takes an integrated multidisciplinary approach in presenting a comprehensive account of the composition, structure, ecology, diversity, distribution, and dynamics of plant communities and their environments
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2013
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Vegetation ecology: historical notes and outlines
- 2. Classification of natural and semi-natural vegetation
- 3. Vegetation and environment: discontinuities and continuities
- 4. Vegetation dynamics
- 5. Clonality in the plant community
- 6. Seed ecology and assembly rules in plant communities
- 7. Species interactions structuring plant communities
- 8. Terrestrial plant-herbivore interactions: integrating across multiple determinants and trophic levels
- 9. Interactions between higher plants and soil-dwelling organisms
- 10. Vegetation and ecosystem
- 11. Diversity and ecosystem function
- 12. Plant functional types and traits at the community, ecosystem and world level
- 13. Plant invasions and invisibility of plant communities
- 14. Vegetation conservation, management and restoration
- 15. Vegetation types and their broad-scale distribution
- 16. Mapping vegetation from landscape to regional scales
- 17. Vegetation ecology and global change