Disturbance in Grasslands Causes, effects and processes

Disturbance in Grasslands Causes, effects and processes / edited by J. van Andel, Jan P. Bakker, R.W. Snaydon.

This volume is the result of a Symposium, held in October, 1985, to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the De­ partment of Plant Ecology of the University of Groningen. The Department of Plant Ecology was founded by Professor Dingeman Bakker and has, since its incep­ tion, been involved with studies of...

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Other Authors: Andel, J. van (Editor), Bakker, Jan P. (Editor), Snaydon, R.W (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1987.
Edition:1st ed. 1987.
Series:Geobotany ; 10
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Plant science.
Botany.
Plant ecology.
Ecology .
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Table of Contents:
  • One: Disturbance in Perspective
  • 1. Disturbance of grasslands — Outline of the theme
  • 2. Population responses to environmental disturbance
  • Two: Vegetation Response to Changing Soil Conditions
  • 3. Soil variation caused by plants: a mechanism of floristic change in grassland?
  • 4. Soil fertility and the composition of semi-natural grassland
  • 5. Hybridization of the habitat in disturbed hay meadows
  • 6. Disturbances in transplanted grasslands and wetlands
  • 7. Vegetation responses to changes in tidal inundation of salt marshes
  • 8. Vegetation development from denuded ground to grassland
  • Three: Vegetation Response to Defoliation and Pathogens
  • 9. The herbivore as prisoner of its food supply
  • 10. Ecological modeling of short-term plant community dynamics under grazing with and without disturbance
  • 11. Modelling the structural changes in vegetation under different grazing regimes
  • 12. Restoration of species-rich grassland after a period of fertilizer application
  • 13. The function of plant pathogenic fungi in natural communities
  • Four: Population and Species Responses
  • 14. Population differentiation in grassland vegetation
  • 15. Population responses in Agrostis stolonifera to selective forces in inland and coastal habitats
  • 16. A physiological analysis of genotypic variation in relative growth rate: Can growth rate confer ecological advantage?
  • 17. Ecological significance of size variation within populations
  • 18. Population responses of Rhinanthus angustifolius to disturbance of grassland communities
  • 19. Pollination and pollen flow disturbed by honeybees in bumblebee-pollinated Rhinanthus populations?
  • 20. Disturbance, hybridization and hybrid speciation
  • Epilogue
  • Species index
  • Communities index.

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