Succession : Symposium on Advances in Vegetation Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 1979

Symposium on Advances in Vegetation Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 1979 Front Matter....Pages I-VII An Arrangement of Changes Along Gradients, with Examples from Successions in Boreal Peatland....Pages 1-4 The Use of Vital Attributes to Predict Successional Changes in Plant Communities Subject to Recurrent Disturbances....Pages 5-21 Vegetation Dynamics and Sex Structure of the Populations of Pioneer Dioecious Woody Plants....Pages 23-38 Succession Patterns on Mountain Pastures....Pages 39-41 Patterns of Plant Species Diversity in Fynbos Vegetation, South Africa....Pages 43-47 Diversity and Stability in Garrigue Ecosystems After Fire....Pages 49-57 Development of Species Diversity in Some Mediterranean Plant Communities....Pages 59-72 Changes in Mediterranean Shrub Communities with Cytisus Purgans and Genista Scorpius....Pages 73-82 Phenological Spread in Plants: A Result of Adaptations to Environmental Stochasticity?....Pages 83-86 An Exploratory Analysis of Grassland Dynamics: An Example of a Lawn Succession....Pages 87-94 Vegetation Development in a Former Orchard Under Different Treatments: A Preliminary Report....Pages 95-102 Succession in a South Swedish Deciduous Wood: A Numerical Approach....Pages 103-122 A Numerical Study of Successions in an Abandoned, Damp Calcareous Meadow in S Sweden....Pages 123-130 Succession: A Population Process....Pages 131-140 The Individualistic Nature of Plant Community Development....Pages 141-146 Vegetation Dynamics or Ecosystem Dynamics: Dynamic Sufficiency in Succession Theory....Pages 147-151