Forest Succession: Concepts and Application

by D.C. West, Daniel B. Botkin, Herman H. Shugart

Book Overview

Succession-nothing in plant, community, or ecosystem ecology has been so elaborated by terminology, so much reviewed, and yet so much the center of controversy. In a general sense, every ecologist uses the concept in teaching and research, but no two ecologists seem to have a unified concept of the details of succession. The word was used by Thoreau to describe, from a naturalist's point of view, the general changes observed during the transition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387905979
• ISBN13: 9780387905976
• Release Date: November 1981
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 517 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.