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Plants in changing environments : linking physiological, population, and community ecology

Title: Plants in changing environments : linking physiological, population, and community ecology / F.A. Bazzaz.
Author: Bazzaz, F. A. (Fakhri A.)
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Description

ix, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Contents

1. Introduction and background -- 2. Plant strategies, models, and successional change: a resource-response perspective -- 3. Community composition and trends of dominance and diversity in successional ecosystems -- 4. The environment of successional plants: disentangling causes and consequences -- 5. Recruitment in successional habitats: general trends and specific differences -- 6. How do plants interact with each other? -- 7. Plant-plant interactions and successional change -- 8. Interaction and the evolution of response breadths and niches -- 9. Ecological and genetic variation in early-successional plants -- 10. Coping with a variable environment: habitat selection and response flexibility -- 11. Physiological trends of successional plants -- 12. Crossing the scales: can we predict community composition from individual species response? -- 13. From fields to forests: forest dynamics and regeneration in a changing environment --
14. Succession and global change: will there be a shift towards more early-successional systems?

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96006155

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Columbia University Libraries