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Plant Species and Plant Communities

Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Nijmegen, November 11–12, 1976 in honour of Professor Dr. Victor Westhoff on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

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  • © 1978

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  1. Eddy Maarel
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  2. Marinus J. A. Werger
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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Opening Address

    • Eddy van der Maarel
    Pages 1-2

  3. Personal word to Victor Westhoff

    • Marcus J. Adriani
    Pages 2-2

  4. Plant Species and Plant Communities: An Introduction

    • M. J. Adriani, E. Van Der Maarel
    Pages 3-6

  5. Die Quellflur-Gesellschaft des Cratoneuro-Arabidetum Bellidifoliae (Koch 1928) in der Subalpinen Stufe Graubündens

    • J. Braun-Blanquet
    Pages 7-9

  6. Observations on North-West European Limestone Grassland Communities: Phytosociological and Ecological Notes on Chalk Grasslands of Southern England

    • J. H. Willems
    Pages 11-20

  7. Vergleich Verschiedener Chrysopogon Gryllus-Reicher Trockenwiesen des Insubrischen Klimabereiches und Angrenzender Gebiete

    • Martin Meyer
    Pages 21-28

  8. Planning an Adaptive Numerical Classification

    • Michael B. Dale
    Pages 29-34

  9. Calluna and its Associated Species: Some Aspects of Co-Existence in Communities

    • C. H. Gimingham
    Pages 35-42

  10. Aspects of Population Dynamics in Halimione Portulacoides Communities

    • W. G. Beeftink, M. C. Daane, W. De Munck, J. Nieuwenhuize
    Pages 43-54

  11. Vegetational Succession in a South Swedish Deciduous Wood

    • Nils Malmer, Lennart Lindgren, Stefan Persson
    Pages 55-67

  12. Untersuchungen Zur Entwicklung Von Gehölz-Aufforstungen Auf Bergbaukippen In Der Dübener Heide (Ddr)

    • Rudolf Hundt
    Pages 69-80

  13. Optimal Woodland Development on Sandy Soils in the Netherlands

    • G. Sissingh
    Pages 81-85

  14. Die Bedeutung des Klimas für die Zusammensetzung der Vegetation SW-Ungarns, des Elsasz und der Umgebung von Briançon, Alpes Maritimes

    • A. O. Horvat
    Pages 87-90

  15. Geographical Changes in the Vegetation Pattern of Raised Bogs in the Bay of Fundy Region of Maine and New Brunswick

    • A. W. H. Damman
    Pages 91-105

  16. The Importance of Closely Related Taxa for the Delimitation of Phytosociological Units

    • Elias Landolt
    Pages 107-117

  17. Weed Species and Weed Communities

    • Wolfgang Holzner
    Pages 119-126

  18. Le Concept de Sigmassociation et son Application a L’etude du Paysage Vegetal des Falaises Atlantiquès Françaises

    • Jean-Marie Gehu
    Pages 127-135

  19. A Vegetation Map of the Netherlands, Based on the Relationship between Ecotopes and Types of Potential Natural Vegetation

    • A. H. P. Stumpel, J. T. R. Kalkhoven
    Pages 137-147

  20. Applications Phytosociologiques a L’Amenagement du Territoire

    • J. Lebrun
    Pages 149-155
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biological attributes of the three species according to the sequence in which they invade successively as a conse­ Studies on sample plots in Halimione portulacoides com­ munities show that environmental disturbances, either quence of environmental disturbance. It can therefore be concluded that for understanding this mechanism in the natural or induced by man, start a sequence of partly salt-marsh ecosystem a thorough study on the functioning overlapping density maxima in Suaeda maritima, Aster of these and other relevant biological attributes in the local tripolium and Puccinellia maritima successively, before the populations is essential. original Halimione community totally recovers. When Returning to the basic questions put in the introduction succession time before recovering is long enough, there are it is concluded that: tendencies in redundancy of this sequence stressing the unilinear character of the succession. Minor environmental a) There exist orderly and predictable succession patterns in the investigated salt-marsh vegetation. impacts induce a longer time-lag period of the Suaeda b) Following occasional disturbances, whatever these may density maximum, suggesting threshold values of these impacts for the species to maintain minimal population be, the vegetation recovers via a sequence of overlapping interim species populations showing a unilinear or obliga­ densities or to become locally extinct. This sequence of tory (Hom 1976) succession pattern.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Plant Species and Plant Communities

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Nijmegen, November 11–12, 1976 in honour of Professor Dr. Victor Westhoff on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

  • Editors: Eddy Maarel, Marinus J. A. Werger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9987-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Dr. W. Junk bv Publishers 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-6193-591-9Published: 30 November 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9987-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 178

  • Topics: Plant Sciences

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