Disturbance Driven Vegetation Dynamics: Concepts from Biogeography to Community Ecology, and Experimental Evidence from Dry Acidic Grasslands in Central Europe
- ISBN-10
- 3443642977
- ISBN-13
- 9783443642976
- Category
- Ecological disturbances
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Author
- Anke Jentsch
Description
This work discusses disturbances, discrete events of specific magnitude, which result in local changes in composition, spatial structure, or temporal development of plant communities. The author introduces concepts and emerging issues of disturbance ecology (significance, definition and scaling) and expands this theoretical view with new experimental data obtained from disturbing various successional stages on inland sand dunes in Central Europe. In recognition of this study the author received the 2003 Wiehe award for research in ecology.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Cicada Summer
By Dallas RelefordThe fact the land was owned by the Hanson family didn't seem to matter. There'd been a continuous dispute between the Mexicans and the Hanson family. Now Dale Petrie had a good enough reason to smile. As a county deputy, ...
-
Annual Carbon Emissions Associated with Natural Disturbance in New Zealand's Natural and Planted Forests: Final Report
By John Robert Moore, R. J. Holdaway, Norman William Herbert MasonAnnual Carbon Emissions Associated with Natural Disturbance in New Zealand's Natural and Planted Forests: Final Report
-
The Little Earth Book: Truths and Lies about Going Green
By James Bruges"In this uncompromising book you'll discover countless facts that the government and mass media sweep under the rug:If everyone lived as we do in the U.S., it would take four earths to support us Three-fourths of all plant species have ...
-
Shadowshine: An Animal Adventure
By Johnny Armstrong"-- An animal adventure with setting in the transition from the ice age to the present epoch, Shadowshine, with all the philosophical musings of its quirky yet remarkable characters, is a story of perseverance and of camaraderie, of the ...
-
Modelling Anthropogenic Impacts on the Growth of Tropical Rain Forests: Using an Indidual-oriented Forest Growth Model for Analyses of Logging...
By Peter KöhlerModelling Anthropogenic Impacts on the Growth of Tropical Rain Forests: Using an Indidual-oriented Forest Growth Model for Analyses of Logging...
-
Environmental Disasters, Natural Recovery and Human Responses
This book will appeal to ecologists, land managers as well as anyone curious about the natural world and natural disasters.
-
Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and EarthlyCoexistence
By Joshua Trey Barnett"Weaving together personal narratives, theoretical meditations, and readings of cultural artifacts, Barnett suggests that ecological grief is best understood as a rhetorical achievement"--