The Population Structure of Vegetation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. The Population Structure of Vegetation

   • James White

   Pages 1-14

3. On the Significance of Demographic Processes in Phytosociology

   • O. Wilmanns

   Pages 15-31

4. The Census of Plants in Vegetation

   • James White

   Pages 33-88

5. Vegetation Changes in Herbaceous Communities

   • Reinhard Bornkamm

   Pages 89-109

6. Research on Permanent Quadrats in the USSR

   • Michael V. Markov

   Pages 111-119

7. Dynamics of Plant Coenotic Populations

   • T. A. Rabotnov

   Pages 121-142

8. Population Biology of Steppe Plants

   • L. I. Vorontzova, L. B. Zaugolnova

   Pages 143-178

9. Structure and Dynamics of Coenopopulations of Some Temperate Grasses

   • L. A. Zhukova, I. M. Ermakova

   Pages 179-205

10. Coenopopulation Structure of Agrostis Species

    • E. I. Kurchenko

    Pages 207-224

11. The Population Biology of Ephemeroids

    • N. I. Shorina, O. V. Smirnova

    Pages 225-240

12. The Demography of Coenopopulations of Forest Herbs

    • K. Falińska

    Pages 241-264

13. Population Structure of Psammophyte Vegetation

    • E. Symonides

    Pages 265-291

14. Vegetation Dynamics of Prairie Glacial Marshes

    • A. G. van der Valk

    Pages 293-312

15. Analysis and Prediction of Population and Community Change: A Grassland Case Study

    • David R. Peart, Theodore C. Foin

    Pages 313-339

16. Demography of Short-Lived Forbs in Chalk Grassland in Relation to Vegetation Structure

    • H. J. During, A. J. Schenkeveld, H. J. Verkaar, J. H. Willems

    Pages 341-370

17. Life Cycle Ecology of Annual Plant Species of Cedar Glades of Southeastern United States

    • Jerry M. Baskin, Carol C. Baskin

    Pages 371-398

18. Population Structure and Processes of Tundra Plants and Vegetation

    • T. V. Callaghan, U. Emanuelsson

    Pages 399-439

19. Demographic, Genetic and Ecophysiological Variation in Plantago Major and P. Lanceolata in Relation to Vegetation Type

    • P. J. M. Van Der Aart

    Pages 441-462

20. Population Biology and Habitat Relations of Some Hemiparasitic Scrophulariaceae

    • Siny J. Ter Borg

    Pages 463-487

The Handbook of Vegetation Science is growing. After the first volumes und er my editorship have appeared the interest of the scientific community has been revived and many new volume editors have started their work. The present volume wasjointly designed by Drs. J. White and W. Beeftink. Due to unforseen developments Dr. White signs now as the sole editor. The development of this volume within the series had a special history as Dr. White pointsout in his preface. Adding to this I need only to state that I found it essential to include the topic of this volume into a Hand­ book of Vegetation Science. lt was included therefore in my first revised Iist of topics to be included in the Handbook when I took over from Dr. Tüxen. It is a great pleasure for me to see this volume appear. Having read through the many contributions to this volume I can certainly congratu­ late Drs. White and Beeftink for their success in generating so much interest in this volume among their colleagues. The cooperation on this volume is forme the first sign that the new concept of the Handbook has been understood by the generation of scientists which I have to address. The influence this volume will have on the field ofplant population studies only time can teil. It appears to me, however, that this volume will become a standard resource for some future. Dr. White asked me to have this volume dedicated to Dr. Rabotnov.

• Vegetation

`With twenty-seven papers by scientists from ten countries, it constitutes a broadly-based survey of past and present research on the dynamics of plant populations in vegetation. A number of case studies demonstrate the links and complementarity between the demographic approach and the sociological approach, an attempt which has not previously been undertaken so comprehensively.'
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• Department of Botany, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

  J. White

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