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Vegetation Dynamics

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  • © 1979

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Authors:
  1. John Miles

    1. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory, Kincardineshire, UK

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Part of the book series: Outline Studies in Ecology (OSE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-6
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  2. The nature of vegetation

    • John Miles
    Pages 7-20

  3. Processes of vegetation change

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    Pages 21-35

  4. Fluctuations

    • John Miles
    Pages 36-40

  5. Regeneration and cyclic changes

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    Pages 41-46

  6. Primary successions

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    Pages 47-53

  7. Secondary successions

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    Pages 54-60

  8. Changes caused by grazing animals

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    Pages 61-64

  9. Concluding remarks

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    Pages 65-66

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 67-80
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About this book

Vegetation dynamics is an important subject. A knowledge and under­ standing of it is central to the science of vegetation management-in grassland, range and nature reserve management, and in aspects of wildlife management, forestry and agricultural crop production. It is also a large and diffuse subject. In a small book such as this I had to be highly selective, and could not do equal justice to all aspects. I have had therefore to condense many examples, and more regrettably, many arguments. While I have tried to present a broad selection of topics and examples, the content inevitably reflects my own special interests and experience. The study of vegetation and its dynamics does not lend itselfto neat and tidy divisions, and the way of allotting material into different chapters here is arbitrary. I have used Chapter I to introduce a number of ideas, beginning with the nature of vegetation in space, then passing to an introduction to the nature of changes in vegetation with time, in particular those generally known as successions. The book also contains a number of asides to the text's central arguments; I hope the reader finds these interesting rather than disconcerting.

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  • Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory, Kincardineshire, UK

    John Miles

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