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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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Assessing vegetation change using vegetation‐plot databases: a risky business
Applied Vegetation Science, 2013AbstractAimData from vegetation plots can be used for the assessment of past vegetation change in three ways: (1) comparison of old and new records from permanent plots established for vegetation monitoring; (2) revisiting historical phytosociological plots and subsequent comparison of old and new records; (3) comparison of large sets of old and new ...
Chytry, M. +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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Climate Change and Vegetation Phenology
2020The rate at which climate change is influencing the living organisms and ecosystem is considered as a major threat to sustaining the resources that are required for the human survival in the future. Environmental impacts on the life stages and functioning of organisms have been a major area of study over the last century. The information available from
K. G. Saxena, K. S. Rao
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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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Functional vegetation change over millennia
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023Triin Reitalu, Sandra Nogué
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Processes of vegetation change
1979Clements [2] recognized the following subprocesses of succession: (1) initiation, (2) immigration of new species, (3) establishment (or ecesis), (4) competition, (5) site modification (or reaction), (6) stabilization at the ‘climax’. With the probable exception of stabilization, and a considerable reduction in emphasis of the role of site modification,
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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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Vegetation Dynamics in Changing Environments.
The Rangeland Journal, 1993Human-induced changes in atmospheric chemistry and meteorology have the potential to alter a broad array of ecosystem processes over a range of temporal and spatial scales. These may have direct and indirect effects that could influence management strategies and landscape response to disturbances associated with natural events and land use.
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Climate change and vegetation response
Vegetatio, 1986This study, as many other current investigations in palaeoecology is focused on the long-term dynamics of vegetation and the extent to which they are controlled by climate change. Climate and classes of climate change are defined and reviewed, and examples cited of vegetation response.
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