Plant demography in vegetation succession

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Aim....Pages 3-6
Assumptions and Terminology....Pages 7-14
Study Area and Methodological Basis....Pages 15-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Old and Present Diversity of the Reski Range Vegetation....Pages 21-32
Sequence of Species....Pages 33-37
Course of Secondary Succession....Pages 38-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Individual and Succession....Pages 43-59
Plant Traits and Species Turnover....Pages 60-66
Role of Species in the Succession Process....Pages 67-80
Recapitulation: Succession as a Plant-by-Plant Replacement Process....Pages 81-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Succession as the Result of Demographic Processes....Pages 87-103
Reproduction and Succession....Pages 104-117
Population Spatial Structure Dynamics During Succession....Pages 118-137
Population Individual-Size Structure in Succession Processes....Pages 138-148
Recapitulation: Population Size and Population Changes....Pages 149-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Succession: A Population Process....Pages 157-165
Plant Strategies in Secondary Successions....Pages 166-171
Mechanisms of Succession....Pages 172-176
Spatial Variations....Pages 177-190
Return of Forest in Meadows — Causes, Mechanisms, Processes....Pages 191-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-210