Succession: Symposium on advances in vegetation sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 1979

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
An Arrangement of Changes Along Gradients, with Examples from Successions in Boreal Peatland....Pages 1-4
The Use of Vital Attributes to Predict Successional Changes in Plant Communities Subject to Recurrent Disturbances....Pages 5-21
Vegetation Dynamics and Sex Structure of the Populations of Pioneer Dioecious Woody Plants....Pages 23-38
Succession Patterns on Mountain Pastures....Pages 39-41
Patterns of Plant Species Diversity in Fynbos Vegetation, South Africa....Pages 43-47
Diversity and Stability in Garrigue Ecosystems After Fire....Pages 49-57
Development of Species Diversity in Some Mediterranean Plant Communities....Pages 59-72
Changes in Mediterranean Shrub Communities with Cytisus Purgans and Genista Scorpius....Pages 73-82
Phenological Spread in Plants: A Result of Adaptations to Environmental Stochasticity?....Pages 83-86
An Exploratory Analysis of Grassland Dynamics: An Example of a Lawn Succession....Pages 87-94
Vegetation Development in a Former Orchard Under Different Treatments: A Preliminary Report....Pages 95-102
Succession in a South Swedish Deciduous Wood: A Numerical Approach....Pages 103-122
A Numerical Study of Successions in an Abandoned, Damp Calcareous Meadow in S Sweden....Pages 123-130
Succession: A Population Process....Pages 131-140
The Individualistic Nature of Plant Community Development....Pages 141-146
Vegetation Dynamics or Ecosystem Dynamics: Dynamic Sufficiency in Succession Theory....Pages 147-151