Description
Natural disturbances such as lava flows, landslides and glacial moraines, and human-damaged sites such as pavement, road edges and mine wastes often leave little or no soil or biological legacy. This 2003 book provided the first comprehensive summary of how plant, animal and microbial communities develop under the harsh conditions following such dramatic disturbances. The authors examine the basic principles that determine ecosystem development and apply the general rules to the urgent practical need for promoting the reclamation of damaged lands. Written for ecologists concerned with disturbance, landscape dynamics, restoration, life histories, invasions, modeling, soil formation and community or population dynamics, this book will also serve as an authoritative text for graduate students and a valuable reference for professionals involved in land management.
Chapter
2.2.6 Disturbance interactions
2.2.7 Summary of disturbance types
3.9.2 Mathematical models
4.2 Environmental controls
4.3 Physical and chemical properties
5 Life histories of early colonists
5.2 Pre-dispersal considerations
5.2.1 Pollination and seed set
5.2.3 Vegetative reproduction
5.3.1 Dispersal parameters
5.3.2 Dispersal mechanisms and their consequences
Active dispersal by animals
5.3.5 Dispersal conclusions
5.5 Persistence and longevity
5.6 Successional consequences of dispersal and establishment
5.6.1 Under-saturated early successional communities
5.6.2 Under-saturated late successional communities
5.6.3 Novel species assemblages
5.6.5 Disharmonic communities
5.6.6 Biogeographical effects
5.6.7 Establishment conclusions
6.2 Plant–soil and animal–soil interactions
6.2.1 Plant impacts on soils
6.2.2 Animal disturbances
6.3 Interactions among plants
Successional implications
Successional implications
6.4 Interactions between plants and other organisms
6.5 Interactions between animals
6.6 Net effects of interactions
7.1.1 Converging trajectories
7.1.2 Diverging trajectories
7.1.3 Trajectory networks
7.1.4 Parallel trajectories
7.1.5 Deflected trajectories
7.1.6 Cyclic patterns and fluctuations
7.1.7 Retrogressive trajectories
7.1.8 Arrested trajectories
7.2.2 Methods of measuring rates
7.3 Changes in biodiversity and biomass
7.3.3 Biomass and allocation
7.4 Environmental feedback
Arctic and Antarctic systems
7.4.6 Chronic disturbance
8 Applications of theory for rehabilitation
8.1 Theory of rehabilitation ecology
8.1.1 Introduction and definitions
8.1.2 Interdependency between rehabilitation and ecological theory
8.2 Rehabilitation processes
8.2.1 Conceptual framework
8.4 Overcoming adverse conditions
8.4.3 Infertility and toxicity
8.4.7 Unstable substrates
8.4.11 Overcoming adversity: a summary
8.5 Feedback between theory and practice
8.5.1 Increasing restoration rates
8.5.3 Enlarging the target
8.5.4 Summary of feedback between theory and practice
9.2 Development of standard protocols
9.2.2 Removal experiments
9.2.3 Chronosequence studies
9.3 Questions for the future
9.3.1 The end of succession
9.4 Missing data and poorly studied habitats
Primary Succession and Ecosystem Rehabilitation
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