Vegetation dynamics in grasslans, healthlands and mediterranean ligneous formations: Symposium of the Working Groups for Succession research on permanent plots, and Data-processing in phytosociology of the International Society for Vegetation Science, held at Montpellier, France, September 1980

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Permanent quadrats: An interface for theory and practice....Pages 1-10
Modelling ecological succession, with particular reference to Markovian models....Pages 11-18
An analysis of succession along an environmental gradient using data from a lawn....Pages 19-30
Probing time series vegetation data for evidence of succession....Pages 31-35
Towards the analysis of vegetation succession....Pages 37-59
Problems in heathland and grassland dynamics....Pages 61-74
Zur Sukzession der mediterranen Vegetation auf der Insel Lokrum bei Dubrovnik....Pages 75-81
Processus dynamiques de reconstitution dans la série du Quercus ilex en Corse....Pages 83-91
Development of flora, vegetation and grazing value in experimental plots of a Quercus coccifera garrigue....Pages 93-104
Changes in the floristic composition of a Quercus coccifera L. garrigue in relation to different fire regimes....Pages 105-116
The effects of protection on steppic vegetation in the Mediterranean arid zone of Southern Tunisia....Pages 117-129
Vegetation dynamics in a coastal grassland of Hawaii....Pages 131-140
Dynamics of some Western Australian ligneous formations with special reference to the invasion of exotic species....Pages 141-148
Community dynamics in relation to management of heathland vegetation in Scotland....Pages 149-155
Vegetation dynamics in Brittany heathlands after fire....Pages 157-166
Pattern development of the vegetation during colonization of a burnt heathland in Brittany (France)....Pages 167-176
The spatial autocorrelation matrix....Pages 177-180
The effect of fertilization and irrigation on the vegetation dynamics of a pine-heath ecosystem....Pages 181-192
Conservation of Calluno-Vaccinietum heathland in the Belgian Ardennes, an experimental approach....Pages 193-200
Grassland dynamics under sheep grazing in an Australian Mediterranean type climate....Pages 201-211
Rates of change in vegetation during secondary succession....Pages 213-220
Temporal variation of species composition and species diversity in permanent grassland plots with different fertilizer treatments....Pages 221-232
The effect of cutting and fertilizing on the floristic composition and production of an Arrhenatherion elatioris grassland....Pages 233-239
From intensively agricultural practices to hay-making without fertilization....Pages 241-258
Fluctuations in a coastal dune grassland due to fluctuations in rainfall: Experimental evidence....Pages 259-265
Succession, diversité et amplitude de niche dans les pâturages du centre de la péninsule ibérique....Pages 267-277
The effect of cement factory air pollution on thermophilous rocky grassland....Pages 279-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-286