Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (MPB-26), Volume 26 /

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Although ecologists have long considered morphology and life history to be important determinants of the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of plants in nature, this book contains the first theory to predict explicitly both the evolution of plant traits and the effects of these traits on plant co...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tilman, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Monographs in Population Biology ; 102
Temas:
Plant communities.
Vegetation dynamics.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Agrostic scabra.
Alopercurus pratensis.
Artemisia ludoviciana.
Berteroa incana.
Carex muhlenbergii.
Crepis tectorum.
Dryas drummondii.
Erigeron canadensis.
Festuca ovina.
Geomys bursarius.
Grime, comparison with.
Hedeoma hispida.
Holcus lanatus.
Lempholemma.
Lespedeza capitata.
Microtus pennsylvanicus.
Panicum perlongum.
Pinus strobus.
Quercus rubra.
Rosa arkansana.
Setaria glauca.
nutritional isoclines.
transient dynamics.
zero net growth isoclines.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Isocline Approach to Resource Competition
  • 3. Mechanisms of Competition for Nutrients and Light
  • 4. Allocation Patterns and Life Histories
  • 5. Vegetation Patterns on Productivity and Loss Rate Gradients
  • 6. The Dynamics of Plant Competition
  • 7. Succession
  • 8. Secondary Succession on a Minnesota Sandplain
  • 9. Questions and Conclusions
  • Appendix: Mathematics of the Model ALLOCATE
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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