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

An arrangement of changes along gradients, with examples from successions in boreal peatland.- The use of vital attributes to predict successional changes in plant communities subject to recurrent disturbances.- Vegetation dynamics and sex structure of the populations of pioneer dioecious woody plants.- Succession patterns on mountain pastures.- Patterns of plant species diversity in fynbos vegetation, South Africa.- Diversity and stability in garrigue ecosystems after fire.- Development of species diversity in some mediterranean plant communities.- Changes in mediterranean shrub communities with Cytisus purgans and Genista scorpius.- Phenological spread in plants: A result of adaptations to environmental stochasticity?.- An exploratory analysis of grassland dynamics: An example of a lawn succession.- Vegetation development in a former orchard under different treatments: A preliminary report.- Succession in a South Swedish deciduous wood: A numerical approach.- A numerical study of successions in an abandoned, damp calcareous meadow in S Sweden.- Succession: A population process.- The individualistic nature of plant community development.- Vegetation dynamics or ecosystem dynamics: Dynamic sufficiency in succession theory.