Primary succession on land, edited by J. Miles, D.W.H. Walton

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Primary succession on land, edited by J. Miles, D.W.H. Walton

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edited by J. Miles, D.W.H. Walton

Instantiates

• Primary succession on land

Publication

• Oxford | Boston, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993

Note

Papers from the symposium held at the University of Liverpool during 5-7 Sept. 1989

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• Introduction: Understanding the fundamentals of succession / A.D. Bradshaw -- Cryptoendolithic communities from hot and cold deserts: Speculation on microbial colonization and succession / J.R. Vestal -- Microbial processes and initial stabilization of fellfield soil / D.D. Wynn-Williams -- The effects of cryptogams on mineral substrates / D.W.H. Walton -- The role of bryophyte propagule banks in primary succession: Case-study of an Antarctic fellfield soil / R.I. Lewis Smith -- Mechanisms of primary succession on volcanoes: A view from Mount St Helens / R. del Moral -- Primary succession on the cone of Vesuvius / S. Mazzoleni and M. Ricciardi -- The colonization of strandlines / A.J. Davy and M.E. Figueroa -- Plant distribution patterns and primary succession on a glacier foreland: A comparative study of cryptogams and higher plants / H.J. Crouch -- Dispersal and establishment of tropical forest assemblages, Krakatoa, Indonesia / R.J. Whittaker and M.B. Bush
• Physiological controls over plant establishment in primary succession / F.S. Chapin III -- The vascular plant pioneers of primary succession: Persistence and phenotypic plasticity / A.J. Gray -- The demography of clonal plants in relation to successional habitat change: The case of Spartina anglica / J.D. Thompson, T. McNeilly and A.J. Gray -- The role of nitrogen fixation in primary succession on land / J.I. Sprent -- Primary succession on man-made wastes: The importance of resource acquisition / R.H. Marrs and A.D. Bradshaw -- Nitrogen fixers and species replacements in primary succession / L.R. Walker -- Soil organisms in coastal foredunes involved in degeneration of Ammophila arenaria / W.H. van der Putten -- Primary succession on land: Community development and wildlife conservation / M.B. Usher -- Primary succession revisited / J. Miles and D.W.H. Walton

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26853472

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26 cm

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viii, 309 pages

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9780632035472

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92035652

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, maps

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.b44075741

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(OCoLC)26853472