دانلود کتاب Plant community ecology: Papers in honor of Robert H. Whittaker

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Front Matter....Pages I-VI
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Robert H. Whittaker (1920–1980): The man and his work....Pages 5-30
New approaches to direct gradient analysis using environmental scalars and statistical curve-fitting procedures....Pages 31-47
An analysis of species response curves and of competition from field data: Some results from heath vegetation....Pages 49-57
Species performances and vegetation boundaries along an environmental gradient....Pages 59-68
On choosing a resemblance measure for non-linear predictive ordination....Pages 69-77
Xeric Mediterranean-type shrubland associations of Alta and Baja California and the community/continuum debate....Pages 79-95
Regional and local variation in tallgrass prairie remnants of Iowa and eastern Nebraska....Pages 97-110
Distributions of C 4 plants along environmental and compositional gradients in southeastern Arizona....Pages 111-124
Gradient analysis of the vegetation of the Byron-Bergen swamp, a rich fen in western New York....Pages 125-131
Vegetation patterns related to environmental factors in a Negev Desert watershed....Pages 133-145
Disturbance and vegetation response in relation to environmental gradients in the Great Smoky Mountains....Pages 147-157
Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains: community types and dynamics....Pages 159-184
Patterns of tree replacement: canopy effects on understory pattern in hemlock - northern hardwood forests....Pages 185-205
Measuring compositional change along gradients....Pages 207-219
A new approach to the minimal area of a plant community....Pages 221-235
Plant species richness at the 0.1 hectare scale in Australian vegetation compared to other continents....Pages 237-248
Diversity relations in Cape shrublands and other vegetation in the southeastern Cape, South Africa....Pages 249-273
Coexistence of plant species with similar niches....Pages 275-301
Composition and species diversity of pine-wiregrass savannas of the Green Swamp, North Carolina....Pages 303-319
Diversity models applied to a chalk grassland....Pages 321-332