عنوان

Theory and Models in Vegetation Science Proceedings of Symposium, Uppsala, July 8-13, 1985.

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9400940610

(Number (ISBN

9789400940611

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b593264

Title Proper

Theory and Models in Vegetation Science Proceedings of Symposium, Uppsala, July 8-13, 1985.

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[Book]

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Prentice, I.C.

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Springer Verlag

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2013

Text of Note

Relations between community theory and community analysis in vegetation science: some historical perspectives.- Hierarchical complexity in ecology: a noneuclidean conception of the data space.- A dynamical systems perspective on vegetation theory.- Models for the analysis of species' response to environmental gradients.- The individualistic and community-unit concepts as falsifiable hypotheses.- Compositional dissimilarity as a robust measure of ecological distance.- The analysis of vegetation-environment relationships by canonical correspondence analysis.- Ecological amplitudes of plant species and the internal consistency of Ellenberg's indicator values for moisture.- An evaluation of the relative robustness of techniques for ecological ordination.- A hierarchical consideration of causes and mechanisms of succession.- The role of expert systems in vegetation science.- Invasion models of vegetation dynamics.- Modeling of vegetation dynamics in the Mississippi River deltaic plain.- Gophers and grassland: a model of vegetation response to patchy soil disturbance.- Description and simulation of tree-layer composition and size distributions in a primaeval Picea-Pinus forest.- The separation of fluctuation and long-term change in vegetation dynamics of a rising seashore.- Regeneration dynamics of beech forests in Japan.- The appearance and disappearance of major vegetational assemblages: Long-term vegetational dynamics in eastern North America.- Climate and plant distribution at global and local scales.- Alternate plant life history strategies and coexistence in randomly varying environments.- Beyond reductionism and scholasticism in plant community ecology.- Some models of catastrophic behavior in exploited forests.- Author index.

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Prentice, I.C.

Prentice, I.C.

Van Der Maarel, E.

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[Book]

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