1: Theoretical and Methodical Fundamentals --; 1. Introduction and Aim --; 2. Assumptions and Terminology --; 3. Study Area and Methodological Basis --; 2: Vegetation Dynamics --; 4. Old and Present Diversity of the Reski Range Vegetation --; 5. Sequence of Species --; 6. Course of Secondary Succession --; 3: Biological Mechanisms of Species Turnover --; 7. Individual and Succession --; 8. Plant Traits and Species Turnover --; 9. Role of Species in the Succession Process --; 10. Recapitulation: Succession as a Plant-By-Plant Replacement Process --; 4: Plant Demography and Population Dynamics --; 11. Succession as the Result of Demographic Processes --; 12. Reproduction and Succession --; 13. Population Spatial Structure Dynamics During Succession --; 14. Population Individual-Size Structure in Succession Processes --; 15. Recapitulation: Population Size and Population Changes --; 5 (Synthesis): Population Dynamics and Vegetation Dynamics --; 16. Succession: A Population Process --; 17. Plant Strategies in Secondary Successions --; 18. Mechanisms of Succession --; 19. Spatial Variations --; 20. Return of Forest in Meadows --; Causes, Mechanisms, Processes --; Systematic Index.