Quantitative approaches to phytogeography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantitative approaches to phytogeography write by Pier Luigi Nimis. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Quantitative approaches to phytogeography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many aspects of phytogeography have gained loped numerical techniques which allow the com greatly from the recent development of analytical bination of quantitative floristic and vegetational and numerical methods. The new methods have analyses with mapping and causal or evolu opened up new avenues of research, leading to a tionary deductions. The papers selected for the better understanding of the distribution and book show approaches for higher and lower plant evolutionary patterns of species and communities. forms. Several papers dealing with relevant in During the 1987 Botanical Congress in Berlin, formation on vegetation for the respective areas Drs Nimis and Haeupler organized a symposium appear for the first time. The combination of in which examples of present-day phytogeogra new approaches successfully applied to new phic work were discussed. After the symposium problems should be very stimulating to young it was agreed that a proceedings volume should scientists as many papers demonstrate how to be edited by Drs Nimis and Crovello. From the make efficient use of the new developments in lectures presented, those dealing primarily with information science for species-oriented phyto numerical methods were selected for the book. geography. This is the second volume of the T: VS series that While the book does not intend to serve as a deals with new aspects and methods of phyto textbook, it can be viewed as a guide to the geography.
Quantitative Plant Ecology
Quantitative Plant Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantitative Plant Ecology write by Peter Greig-Smith. This book was released on 1983-01-01. Quantitative Plant Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quantitative Techniques for Determination of Phytogeographic Regions
Quantitative Techniques for Determination of Phytogeographic Regions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantitative Techniques for Determination of Phytogeographic Regions write by Clifton Keller. This book was released on 1979. Quantitative Techniques for Determination of Phytogeographic Regions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Plant-animal interactions in Mediterranean-type ecosystems
Plant-animal interactions in Mediterranean-type ecosystems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plant-animal interactions in Mediterranean-type ecosystems write by Margarita Arianoutsou-Faraggitaki. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Plant-animal interactions in Mediterranean-type ecosystems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sixth International Conference on Mediterranean Climate ecosystems was held at Maleme (Crete), Greece, from September 23 to September 27, 1991. This conference had as its theme 'Plant-Animal Interactions in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems'. Most of the papers presented to that meeting have already been published (see Thanos, C.A. ed., 1992, Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems, Athens, 389 pp.). These 57 papers were all necessarily short. But the theme of plant-animal interactions was considered by the Organizing Committee to be so important to a fundamental understanding of the ecology of Mediterranean-climate ecosystems and to an enhanced management ·of those systems that various international research scientists were invited to prepare longer contributions on major aspects of the overall theme. The Book that follows represents the result of those invitations. All five regions of Mediterranean climate are represented - Chile, California, southern Australia and the Cape Province of South Africa, as well as the Mediterranean Basin itself.
Scale and Contingency in Plant Demography
Scale and Contingency in Plant Demography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scale and Contingency in Plant Demography write by Sean Maurice McMahon. This book was released on 2007. Scale and Contingency in Plant Demography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecologists have long recognized that patterns measured in nature often depend upon the context in which they are observed and the scale at which they are observed. When studying plant populations, the role of scale and contingency becomes crucial. Thinking about a plant community as a system is essential as populations of plants are centered within a network that influences their dynamics in direct and indirect ways. Plant populations are inherently scale-dependent because they have properties as a group that can be independent of their properties as individual stems. Although the challenge of interpreting population patterns in the face of contingency and scale has been addressed conceptually, there has been less success in applying those concepts to observational and experimental studies. This dissertation addresses the challenges of modeling the demographic dynamics of a forest understory herb, Eurybia chlorolepis (Asteraceae) or mountain aster. The study population consisted of twenty patches containing between 20 and 70 individual stems in each patch. These patches spanned three sites within the Indian Camp Creek watershed in the Cosby Ranger district of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Plants in the forest understory in this dense old-growth forest are influenced by a myriad of biotic and abiotic components of the community: light, soil characteristics, other plant species, herbivores, pollinators, seed predators, and the feet of bears. This dissertation shows that the mechanisms that influence sexual reproduction of this plant are structured almost entirely on the stem-to-stem scale, indicating little coarse-scale influence of the environment over sexual reproduction. The use of a Bayesian learning network showed that the environmental influences (soil in particular) operated most importantly in the transition from juvenile stage to adult stage. Taken together, these analyses indicate that the coarse-environtment (such as gaps, soil profiles, soil moisture, and the presence of other plants) dictates where E. chlorolepis becomes reproductive, while the success of that reproduction is dictated by mechanisms operating between individual stems.
