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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Orlando, Fla. : Academic Press, 1985 (OCoLC)647478447 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steward T Pickett; P S White |
| ISBN: | 0125545207 9780125545204 |
| OCLC Number: | 11134082 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 472 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Natural disturbance and patch dynamics: an introduction / P. S. White, S. T. A. Pickett -- Disturbance regimes in temperate forests / James R. Runkle -- Stand Dynamics in Chilean Nothofagus forests / Thomas T. Veblen -- Treefalls, regrowth, and community structure in tropical forests / Nicholas V. L. Brokaw -- Gap processes and large-scale disturbances in sand prairies / Orie L. Loucks, Mary L. Plumb-Mentjes, Deborah Rogers -- Shrubland fire regimes and their evolutionary consequences / Norman L. Christensen -- Disturbance and patch dynamics on rocky intertidal shores / Wayne P. Sousa -- Disturbance and patch dynamics of subtidal marine animals on hard substrata / Joseph H. Connell, Michael J. Keough -- Disturbance and vertebrates: an integrative perspective / James R. Karr, Kathryn E. Freemark -- Vertebrate responses to environmental patchiness in arid and semiarid ecosystems / John A. Wiens. The response of Woody plants to disturbance: patterns of establishment and growth / Charles D. Canham, P. L. Marks -- Responses of forest herbs to canopy gaps / B. S. Collins, K. P. Dunne, Pickett -- Adaptations of insects to disturbance / Timothy D. Schowalter -- Within-patch dynamics of life histories, populations, and interactions: selection over time in small spaces / John N. Thompson -- Animal population genetics and disturbance: the effects of local extinctions and recolonizations on heterozygosity and fitness / Robert C. Vrijenhoek -- Plant population genetics and evolution in disturbed environments / Kevin Rice, Subodh Jain -- Disturbance-mediated coexistence of species / Julie Sloan Denslow -- Community turnover and ecosystem nutrient dynamics / Peter M. Vitousek -- Natural disturbance and ecosystem energetics / Douglas G. Sprugel -- Modeling forest landscapes and the role of disturbance in ecosystems and communities / H. H. Shugart, S. W. Seagle -- Patch dynamics: a synthesis / Pickett, White. |
| Other Titles: | Patch dynamics. |
| Responsibility: | edited by S.T.A. Pickett, P.S. White. |
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