Vegetation between land and sea: Structure and processes

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Wim G. Beeftink....Pages 2-9
List of Publications of W. G. Beeftink....Pages 10-15
Salt marsh communities of three West Frisian Islands, with some notes on their long-term succession during half a century....Pages 16-41
Changes in salt-marsh area in the Netherlands Wadden Sea after 1600....Pages 42-51
Utilization of different salt-marsh plant communities by cattle and geese....Pages 52-65
Ecology of salt-marsh algae in the Netherlands....Pages 66-85
Fungi in intertidal regions....Pages 86-93
Synecological relations in the moist grasslands of Ballyteige Innish, Ireland....Pages 95-106
Leaf diversity of three vegetation types of Tenerife, Canary Islands....Pages 107-119
Preliminary investigations on the texture of high arctic tundra vegetation....Pages 120-133
Reflexions et observations sur le classement des végétations halophiles européennes....Pages 134-145
Decomposition of standing and fallen litter of halophytes in a Dutch salt marsh....Pages 146-162
Ecological differentiation of the microspecies Salicornia dolichostachya Moss and Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods....Pages 164-178
Ecophysiological response of Salicornia dolichostachya and Salicornia brachystachya to seawater inundation....Pages 180-186
Salicornia europaea agg., colonizing bare sand flats in the south-west of the Netherlands....Pages 188-199
Seed productivity and seed polymorphism in Aster tripolium L....Pages 202-213
The relation between the halophyte Aster tripolium and Agapanthia villosoviridescens , an insect invader of estuarine salt marshes....Pages 214-225
Aspects of seed dispersal by tidal movements....Pages 226-235
Growth and interactions of salt-marsh species under different flooding regimes....Pages 236-259
Growth and mineral relations of salt-marsh species on nutrient solutions containing various sodium sulphide concentrations....Pages 260-269
The impact of competitive interactions on the growth and distribution of plant species in salt marshes....Pages 270-283
Aspects of the population biology of sexual dandelions in the Netherlands....Pages 284-291
Trace element correlations in the halophyte Aster tripolium from a salt marsh (Westerwaarde) of the Scheldt Estuary....Pages 292-301
Metal fluxes to coastal ecosystems and the response of coastal vegetation....Pages 302-311
Experimental plant ecology as an approach in coastal population biology....Pages 312-325
Back Matter....Pages 327-340