J Philip Grime

Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780470850404
• ISBN-10: 047085040X
• Artikelnr.: 21525957

Autorenporträt

John Philip Grime FRS is a prominent British ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 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