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Description: |
80 pages : illustrations, maps, graphs, tables ; 22 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: The nature of vegetation. Ubiquity of changes in time ; Variation in space ; The nature of vegetation in time -- Processes of vegetation change. Initiation of successions and fluctuations ; Immigration of species ; Establishment ; Competition ; Site modification ; Stabilization -- Fluctuations. Definitions of vegetation change ; Phenological changes ; Changes with fluctuations in environment -- Regeneration and cyclic changes -- Primary successions. Successions on submerged and waterlogged soils ; Succession behind retreating glaciers -- Secondary successions. The course of secondary succession ; Factors determining the course of secondary succession ; Predictability of secondary succession -- Changes caused by grazing animals. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Miles, John, 1941- Vegetation dynamics. London : Chapman and Hall ; New York : Wiley : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Halsted Press, ©1979 (OCoLC)645922361 |
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Series Added Entry: |
Outline studies in ecology. |