Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties

Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative Processes, which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics.<br> This second edition uses evidence from many parts of the world to re-examine these concepts in the light of the enormous expansion in the literature.<br> Features include:<br> * A new section covering all aspects of ecosystem properties<br> * New chapters on<br> Assembling of Communities<br> Rarification and Extinction<br> Colonisation and Invasion<br> * Principles and methodologies of a range of international tests including case study examples<br> * Chapter summaries for a quick reference guide<br> * Index of species names<br> Written in a very readable style, this book is an invaluable reference source for researchers in the areas of plant, animal, and community ecology, conservation and land management.<br> ‘Written by one of the foremost authorities in the field, summarising over 35 years of research. A book all plant ecologists will want to read.’ – Jonathan Silvertown, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, UK.<br> ‘The coverage is outstanding and comprehensive.’ – Simon A. Levin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton<br> University, USA