{"product_id":"plant-strategies-vegetation-processes-and-ecosystem-properties-isbn-9780470850404","title":"Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties","description":"Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes, which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics.\u003cbr\u003e This second edition uses evidence from many parts of the world to re-examine these concepts in the light of the enormous expansion in the literature.\u003cbr\u003e Features include:\u003cbr\u003e * A new section covering all aspects of ecosystem properties\u003cbr\u003e * New chapters on\u003cbr\u003e Assembling of Communities\u003cbr\u003e Rarification and Extinction\u003cbr\u003e Colonisation and Invasion\u003cbr\u003e * Principles and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples\u003cbr\u003e * Chapter summaries for a quick reference guide\u003cbr\u003e * Index of species names\u003cbr\u003e Written in a very readable style, this book is an invaluable reference source for researchers in the areas of plant, animal, and community ecology, conservation and land management.\u003cbr\u003e 'Written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, summarising over 35 years of research. 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Mit noch mehr internationalen Tests, Beispielen und virtuellen Experimenten. \u003cp\u003ePreface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to First Edition vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Summaries xxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Plant Strategies 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Primary Strategies in the Established Phase 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Secondary Strategies in the Established Phase 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Regenerative Strategies 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Plant Strategies and Vegetation Process 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Dominance 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Assembling of Communities 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Rarification and Extinction 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Colonisation and Invasion 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Succession 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Co-existence 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Plant Strategies and Ecosystem Properties 301\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Trophic Structure, Productivity and Stability 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecies list 404\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 410\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJohn Philip Grime FRS is a prominent British ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield.   \u003ci\u003ePlant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful \u003ci\u003ePlant Strategies and Vegetative Processes\u003c\/i\u003e, which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second edition uses evidence from many parts of the world to re-examine these concepts in the light of the enormous expansion in the literature.\u003cbr\u003e  Features include\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA new section covering all aspects of ecosystem properties\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew chapters on\u003cbr\u003e Assembling of Communities\u003cbr\u003e  Rarification and Extinction\u003cbr\u003e  Colonisation and Invasion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePrinciples and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter summaries for a quick refernce guide\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIndex of species names\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Written in a very readable style, this book is an invaluable reference source for researchers in the areas of plant, animal, and community ecology, conservation and land management.  \u003cp\u003e'Written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, summarising over 35 years of research. 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