Comprehensive edition of Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes first published in 1979. Contains a new section on ecosystem properties as well as discussing the various strategies in plant ecology and vegetation processes. Other new chapters include assembling of communities, rarification and extinction, colonisation and invasion.
Contents: Plant Stategies; Primary Strategies in the established phase, Secondary strategies in the established phase, Regenerative strategies; Vegetation Processes: Dominance, Assembling of Communities, Rarification and extinction, Colonisation and Invasion, Succession, Coexistence; Ecosystem Properties: Trophic structure, Productivity, Resistance, resilience and sustainability.