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The growing challenge of vegetation change
Science, 2021Analysis of past change puts risks of plant carbon management in a long-term ...
Jonathan T, Overpeck, David D, Breshears
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Vegetation change in the karoo
Proceedings of the Annual Congresses of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa, 1983Large scale and often radical change has taken place in Karoo vegetation over the past three centuries. This change can be equated with desertification and desertization processes. Change largely embodies the thinning out of the vegetation, decrease or destruction of perennial grass, and an increase and spreading of undesirable Karoo bush and woody ...
Vorster, M, Roux, PW
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Vegetation change: a reunifying concept in plant ecology
Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 2005Specialization can become detrimental to a discipline if it fosters intellectual isolation. A bibliographic analysis of several research areas in plant ecology (invasion biology, succession ecology, gap/patch dynamics, and global change effects on plants) revealed that plant ecologists do not regularly make use of the findings and insights of very ...
Davis, Mark A. +14 more
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Vegetation as an indicator of environmental changes
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1983Composition of the vegetation and the properties of its environment are related, as was shown by research. In these, mostly statistical-correlative studies, both the vegetation and some growth factors, such as plant nutrients and moisture supply were analyzed and studied on interdependence.At present the environmental conditions can be estimated in the
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The nature of vegetation and kinds of vegetation change
1990Before tackling the description and explanation of the processes of vegetation change, we need to set the stage by discussing the ways in which ecologists perceive the general nature of vegetation and vegetation change. The flora of a region (or of the world), is the complete range of plant species found there. The vegetation consists of assemblages of
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Simulating Future Changes in Arctic and Subarctic Vegetation
Computing in Science & Engineering, 2007The arctic is a sensitive system undergoing dramatic changes related to recent warming trends. Vegetation dynamics - increases in the quantity of green vegetation and a northward migration of trees into the arctic tundra - are a component of this change.
Howard E. Epstein +3 more
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African Research & Documentation, 1973
A common element in all African studies is the background of the African environment. My first real sight of Africa, thirty years ago, was in the long train journey from Lagos to Zaria. As a botanist, I was fascinated then by the changing patterns of vegetation — different kinds of forest and savanna, a rich diversity of plant species.
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A common element in all African studies is the background of the African environment. My first real sight of Africa, thirty years ago, was in the long train journey from Lagos to Zaria. As a botanist, I was fascinated then by the changing patterns of vegetation — different kinds of forest and savanna, a rich diversity of plant species.
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On the dynamics of vegetation: Patterns of environmental and vegetational change
Vegetatio, 1978Ecological succession theory deals with temporal change in biological communities. It consists largely of generalizations based on temporal sequences inferred from spatial ones. The predictive content of the theory is low, since predictions are derived from unconditional trends rather than conditional laws.
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On the theory of vegetation change
1990Examples of changes in vegetation in many kinds of land system and some aquatic systems were described in earlier chapters. Chapter 11, especially, emphasized empirical information on vegetation change processes, and Chapter 12 summarized the theoretical and empirical bases from which ecologists have hitherto tried to understand vegetation change.
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Vegetation and climatic changes in a city
Ecological Engineering, 1998Abstract This paper sums up the methodology used and the plan of action taken for verification of the ‘heat island’ in the city of Valencia. At the same time it attempts to outline the role that green areas play in the distribution and pattern of urban temperature, thus constituting basic data for ‘ecological engineering’ in modern city planning.
F. Gomez, E. Gaja, A. Reig
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