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Ecology of Populations and Vegetation

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This chapter deals with the development and composition of vegetation. Plant communities at a certain site are ultimately the result of complicated interactions of geological and later historical processes with the abiotic environment (climate and original substrate; see Chaps. 11 and 12) but cannot be understood without knowing the intrinsic conversion processes and the influence of disturbances (Fig. 13.1). Various levels of complexity affect each other:

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Körner, C. (2013). Ecology of Populations and Vegetation. In: Strasburger's Plant Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15518-5_13

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