Plants in changing environments: linking physiological, population, and community ecology

Abstract

1. Introduction and background 2. Plant strategies and successional change: a resource-response perspective 3. Community composition and trends of dominance and diversity in recovering ecosystems 4. The environment of successional plants: disentangling causes and consequences 5. Recruitment in successional habitats: general trends and specific differences 6. How do plants interact with each other? 7. Plant/plant interactions and ecosystem recovery 8. Competition and the evolution of response breadths and niches 9. Ecological and genetic variation in early successional plants 10. Coping with a variable environment: habitat selection, response flexibility: tracking, acclimation, and plasticity 11. Physiological trends of plant in recovering ecosystems 12. Crossing the scales: can we predict community composition from individual species response? 13. From fields to forests: forest dynamics and regeneration in a changing environment 14. Succession and global change: the implications of migration, extinction, and adaptation References Index.