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  3. An Integrative Approach to Successional Dynamics
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9780511844218
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844218
Subjects:
Plant Sciences, Life Sciences, Ecology and Conservation
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Book description

Much of what is considered conventional wisdom about succession is not as clear cut as it is generally believed. Yet, the importance of succession in ecology is undisputed since it offers a real insight into the dynamics and structure of all plant communities. Part monograph and part conceptual treatise, An Integrative Approach to Successional Dynamics presents a unifying conceptual framework for dynamic plant communities and uses a unique long-term data set to explore the utility of that framework. The fourteen chapters, each written in a nontechnical style and accompanied by numerous illustrations and examples, cover diverse aspects of succession, including community, population and disturbance dynamics, diversity, community assembly, heterogeneity, functional ecology and biological invasion. This unique text will be a great source of reference for researchers and graduate students in ecology and plant biology, as well as others with an interest in the subject.

Reviews

'… the book is a very useful guide to the understanding of some rather complex successional theories and provides essential reading especially for early-career plant ecologists and students. For lecturers, it provides a very useful case study repository for plant succession theory lectures.'

Péter Török Source: Bulletin of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group

'… the book should be accessible to ecologically minded undergraduates who want to learn more about succession than the two or three pages found in a general ecology text.'

W. E. Williams Source: Choice

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