Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities. (MPB-26), Volume 26 / / David Tilman.
Although ecologists have long considered morphology and life history to be important determinants of the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of plants in nature, this book contains the first theory to predict explicitly both the evolution of plant traits and the effects of these traits on plant co...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Population Biology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Isocline Approach to Resource Competition
- 3. Mechanisms of Competition for Nutrients and Light
- 4. Allocation Patterns and Life Histories
- 5. Vegetation Patterns on Productivity and Loss Rate Gradients
- 6. The Dynamics of Plant Competition
- 7. Succession
- 8. Secondary Succession on a Minnesota Sandplain
- 9. Questions and Conclusions
- Appendix: Mathematics of the Model ALLOCATE
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index