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Plant communities. --- Communities, Plant --- Phytosociology --- Plant associations --- Plant societies --- Biotic communities --- Plant ecology

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This is a comprehensive handbook in two volumes covering the heart of the continent, including Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on a thorough literature review with 5500 cited references and illustrated with nearly 1000 informative figures and tables, all vegetation types of this region are analysed in terms of their climatic and edaphic influences, the structure and dynamics of their communities, the ecophysiological constitution of the main plant species, important aspects of ecosystem functioning, and recent conservation issues. This volume deals with all types of non-forest vegetation in Central Europe, from the mostly natural coastal, mire, freshwater and alpine formations to the broad array of man-made habitats including managed grasslands, heathlands and arable fields, as well as ruderal and urban ecosystems. A key topic is human impact, which has influenced and shaped these ecosystems over the last 7000 years. The 14 chapters are arranged in a sequence from the natural non-forest formations to the purely anthropogenic ones, starting with coastal ecosystems (Chapters 1 and 2: salt marshes and dunes), followed by semi-aquatic ecosystems (Chapters 3 and 4: mires and freshwater systems) and alpine and nival ecosystems (Chapter 5). The subsequent group of anthropogenic systems starts with heathlands (Chapter 6) and managed dry or mesic to wet grasslands (Chapters 7 and 8) and proceeds to the vegetation of heavy metal-rich soils (Chapter 9), ruderal wet or mesic to dry habitats (Chapters 10 and 11), ending up with the heavily disturbed vegetation (Chapters 12 and 13: vegetation of arable land and urban areas). The summarising chapter (14) gives an overview of the most important plant communities of Central Europe.     .

Life sciences. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Plant ecology --- Plant communities --- Communities, Plant --- Phytosociology --- Plant associations --- Plant societies --- Biotic communities --- Botany --- Plants --- Ecology

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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 and others with an interest in the subject.

Vegetation dynamics. --- Plant succession. --- Plant communities. --- Communities, Plant --- Phytosociology --- Plant associations --- Plant societies --- Biotic communities --- Plant ecology --- Succession, Plant --- Ecological succession --- Vegetation dynamics --- Dynamics of vegetation --- Acclimatization (Plants) --- Plant communities --- Vegetation and climate

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Plant ecology --- Plant communities --- Plant populations --- Agriculture Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Écologie végétale --- Associations végétales --- Plantes --- Plant communities. --- Plant ecology. --- Plant populations. --- Vegetatiekunde. --- General and Others. --- Populations --- Populations, Plant --- Botany --- Plants --- Communities, Plant --- Phytosociology --- Plant associations --- Plant societies --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Biotic communities --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic ecology

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This commemorative volume of invited papers in vegetation science covers a full range of topics, objectives, methods and applications, including conservation and management tasks. These require study at different temporal and spatial scales, often simultaneously. Methodology is important in science, since it responds to particular questions and raises others. It is also closely related to the scale of investigation. Chapters in this book illustrate this interdependence, even in basic tasks such as vegetation sampling and description, measurements and mapping. Individual chapters present globally applicable systems, regional syntheses, and local analyses and applications, plus conceptual methodologies, including currently debated hot topics. Vegetation types treated include tropical rainforests, temperate forests, dry steppes and scrub, and local turf, sedge and moss communities. There are also chapters on re-vegetation, woodlot management, ecology of an invasive species, and trajectory planning in conservation. This book will be useful to both students and practitioners, for its reviews and examples, and as a potential textbook suitable for graduate-level courses and seminars.

Biology - General --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Plant ecology. --- Plant communities. --- Communities, Plant --- Phytosociology --- Plant associations --- Plant societies --- Botany --- Plants --- Ecology --- Biotic communities --- Plant ecology --- Plant Ecology. --- Botany. --- Biogeosciences. --- Plant Sciences. --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Natural history --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Geobiology. --- Plant science. --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere --- Floristic botany --- Floristic ecology