Vegetation Dynamics -

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Sommaire:
A. Preface and Introduction.- B. Kinds of Changes in Vegetation.- 1 Kinds and Rates of Changes in Vegetation and Chronofunctions.- 2 Differences between Fluctuations and Successions.- C. Methods of Syndynamical Analysis and of Conclusions in Vegetation Dynamics.- 3 Grossreste von Pflanzen, Pollen, Sporen und Bodenprofile in ihrer Bedeutung f?r Syndynamik und Synchronologie (Plant Macrofossils, Pollen, Spores and Soil Profiles in Relation to Syndynamics and Synchronology).- 4 Syndynamical Analysis and Conclusions by means of the Present Vegetation Status, of Earlier Records and of Repeated Studies on Permanent Plots.- 5 Special Methods of Succession Analysis in Eurasian Tundra Vegetation.- 6 Methods of Succession Analysis in Eurasian Steppes and Semideserts.- 7 The Use of the American General Land Office Survey in Syndynamical Vegetation Analysis.- 8 Die Bedeutung der Forstwii tschafts-Geschichte in Mitteleuropa und Frankreich f?r die syndynamische Vegetationskunde, (The Importance of Forestry History in Central Europe and in France for the Syndynamical Vegetation Science).- 9 Cyclic Successions and Ecosystem Approaches in Vegetation Dynamics.- D. Cytogenetical, Competitional, Allelopathic and Similar Causes of Vegetation Dynamics.- 10 Genetical and Cytological Conditions for Syndynamical Vegetation Changes.- 11 Mutual Influences between Plants, Allelopathy, Competition and Vegetation Changes.- E. Classification of Successions and of their Terminal Stages.- 12 Types of Succession.- 13 Climax Concepts and Recognition.- 14 Differences in Duration of Successional Seres.- 15 Special Russian Methods in Classification of Successions.- 16 Some Principles of Classification and of Terminology in Successions.- 17 Vegetationsentwicklungstypen, (Vegetation Development Types).- F.Productivity and Chemical Changes in Successional Stages.- 18 Primary Productivity of Successional Stages.- 19 Biomass Accumulation in Successions.- 20 Nitrogen Accumulation in Successions.- 21 Accumulation of Ash Elements and pH Changes.- 22 Vegetational Changes on Aging Landforms in the Tropics and Subtropics.- G. Examples of Fluctuations.- 23 Fluctuations in Coniferous Taiga Communities.- 24 Fluctuations in North American Grassland Vegetation.- 25 Fluctuations in the Semidesert and Desert Vegetation of the Turanian Plain.- H. Synchronological Vegetation Dynamics.- 26 Synchronologie w?hrend der einzelnen geologischen Zeitr?ume in Europa, (Synchronology during the Particular Geological Periods in Europe).- 27 Synchronologie einzelner Vegetationseinheiten in Europa (Synchronology of Particular Vegetation Units in Europe).- Index (Register).