Theory and models in vegetation science

1. Front Matter

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2. Relations between community theory and community analysis in vegetation science: some historical perspectives

   • Imanuel Noy-Meir, Eddy van der Maarel

   Pages 5-15

3. Hierarchical complexity in ecology: a noneuclidean conception of the data space

   • T. F. H. Allen

   Pages 17-25

4. A dynamical systems perspective on vegetation theory

   • David W. Roberts

   Pages 27-33

5. Models for the analysis of species’ response to environmental gradients

   • M. P. Austin

   Pages 35-45

6. The individualistic and community-unit concepts as falsifiable hypotheses

   • Bill Shipley, Paul A. Keddy

   Pages 47-55

7. Compositional dissimilarity as a robust measure of ecological distance

   • Daniel P. Faith, Peter R. Minchin, Lee Belbin

   Pages 57-68

8. The analysis of vegetation-environment relationships by canonical correspondence analysis

   • Cajo J. F. Ter Braak

   Pages 69-77

9. Ecological amplitudes of plant species and the internal consistency of Ellenberg’s indicator values for moisture

   • Cajo J. F. Ter Braak, Niek J. M. Gremmen

   Pages 79-87

10. An evaluation of the relative robustness of techniques for ecological ordination

    • Peter R. Minchin

    Pages 89-107

11. A hierarchical consideration of causes and mechanisms of succession

    • S. T. A. Pickett, S. L. Collins, J. J. Armesto

    Pages 109-114

12. The role of expert systems in vegetation science

    • I. R. Noble

    Pages 115-121

13. Invasion models of vegetation dynamics

    • Robert Van Hulst

    Pages 123-131

14. Modeling of vegetation dynamics in the Mississippi River deltaic plain

    • Marcel Rejmánek, Charles E. Sasser, James G. Gosselink

    Pages 133-140

15. Gophers and grassland: a model of vegetation response to patchy soil disturbance

    • R. J. Hobbs, V. J. Hobbs

    Pages 141-146

16. Description and simulation of tree-layer composition and size distributions in a primaeval Picea-Pinus forest

    • Rik Leemans, I. Colin Prentice

    Pages 147-156

17. The separation of fluctuation and long-term change in vegetation dynamics of a rising seashore

    • Wolfgang Cramer, Håkan Hytteborn

    Pages 157-167

18. Regeneration dynamics of beech forests in Japan

    • Tohru Nakashizuka

    Pages 169-175

19. The appearance and disappearance of major vegetational assemblages: Long-term vegetational dynamics in eastern North America

    • Thompson Webb III

    Pages 177-187

20. Climate and plant distribution at global and local scales

    • F. I. Woodward, B. G. Williams

    Pages 189-197

July 8 -13, 1985, an international group of scientists met in Uppsala for a symposium on the subject 'Theory and models in Vegetation science' . A volume of over 70 extended abstracts had already been published in time for the symposium (Leemans et at., 1985). That volume included contributions from nearly all of those who gave talks or presented posters at the symposium. The present volume represents the fully-refereed proceedings of the symposium and features articles by a majority of speakers, plus a handful by poster authors, and two that were sent independently to Vegetatio and seemed timely and relevant to the symposi­ um's theme. As organizers, we tried to bring together for the symposium people whose interests covered several key aspects of modern vegetation science: vegetation dynamics, on shorter or longer time scales; the analysis of community data, and of vegetation-environment relationships in both time and space; and the functional basis of vegetation in terms of the individual plants and plant populations that it comprises. We encouraged contributors to focus on theory and models - not necessarily mathematical models, but also conceptual models that might contribute to the development of theory and mathematical models.

• Ordination
• complexity
• ecology
• environment
• forest
• plant
• soil
• vegetation

• Institute of Ecological Botany, Uppsala, Sweden

  I. Colin Prentice, Eddy Maarel

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