Herbaceous Plant Ecology: Recent Advances in Plant Ecology

Front Matter....Pages I-VI
Plant species richness and diversity of the serpentine areas on the Witwatersrand....Pages 1-17
Temporal changes in species diversity and composition in abandoned fields in a trans -Himalayan landscape, Nepal....Pages 19-35
Role of desert annuals in nutrient flow in arid area of Northwestern China: a nutrient reservoir and provider....Pages 37-45
The effects of fire frequency and grazing on tallgrass prairie productivity and plant composition are mediated through bud bank demography....Pages 47-56
Do plant functional types based on leaf dry matter content allow characterizing native grass species and grasslands for herbage growth pattern?....Pages 57-69
Clonal growth strategies in simultaneously persistent and expanding Trifolium repens patches....Pages 71-80
California native and exotic perennial grasses differ in their response to soil nitrogen, exotic annual grass density, and order of emergence....Pages 81-92
Do seed and microsite limitation interact with seed size in determining invasion patterns in flooding Pampa grasslands?....Pages 93-105
Feral horses dung piles as potential invasion windows for alien plant species in natural grasslands....Pages 107-116
Reproductive allocation of Carex flava reacts differently to competition and resources in a designed plant mixture of five species....Pages 117-125
Factors affecting the establishment and growth of annual legumes in semi-arid mediterranean grasslands....Pages 127-136
Are irrigation and grazing effects transferred, accumulated, or counteracted during plant recruitment?....Pages 137-151
Extent and spatial patterns of grass bald land cover change (1948–2000), Oregon Coast Range, USA....Pages 153-165
Grass (Poaceae) richness patterns across China’s nature reserves....Pages 167-187
Interacting effects of grass height and herbivores on the establishment of an encroaching savanna shrub....Pages 189-202
Effects of competition on root–shoot allocation in Plantago lanceolata L.: adaptive plasticity or ontogenetic drift?....Pages 203-209
Rock-colonizing plants: abundance of the endemic cactus Mammillaria fraileana related to rock type in the southern Sonoran Desert....Pages 211-224
Ecophysiological responses of nine floodplain meadow species to changing hydrological conditions....Pages 225-234
Tolerance of a perennial herb, Pimpinella saxifraga , to simulated flower herbivory and grazing: immediate repair of injury or postponed reproduction?....Pages 235-245
Differential herbivory tolerance of dominant and subordinate plant species along gradients of nutrient availability and competition....Pages 247-255
Responses of clonal architecture to experimental defoliation: a comparative study between ten grassland species....Pages 257-266
Diffuse knapweed ( Centaurea diffusa Lam.) seedling emergence and establishment in a Colorado grassland....Pages 267-274
Biodiversity and tallgrass prairie decomposition: the relative importance of species identity, evenness, richness, and micro-topography....Pages 275-285
Herbivory and local genetic differentiation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae)....Pages 287-295
The effect of nutrient supply and light intensity on tannins and mycorrhizal colonisation in Dutch heathland ecosystems....Pages 297-311
Spatial and temporal dynamics of floating and drift-line seeds at a tidal freshwater marsh on the Potomac River, USA....Pages 313-322
Estimating plant competition coefficients and predicting community dynamics from non-destructive pin-point data: a case study with Calluna vulgaris and Deschampsia flexuosa ....Pages 323-333
Disturbance by mowing affects clonal diversity: the genetic structure of Ranunculus ficaria (Ranunculuaceae) in meadows and forests....Pages 335-343
Soil amendment effects on the exotic annual grass Bromus tectorum L. and facilitation of its growth by the native perennial grass Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth....Pages 345-357
Effects of fire on the vegetation of a lowland heathland in North-western Italy....Pages 359-367