Vegetatio

, Volume 16, Issue 1–4, pp 135–158 | Cite as

Vegetational response to change in environment and change in species tolerance with time

  • Rudolf W. Becking
Original Articles

Conclusion

Applications of system analysis and model simulation can provide for criteria of preservation regulating the processes of entropy and negentropy in ecosystems. Changes in floristic composition and species tolerance may provide information for the necessary dynamics and the cause-effect relationships of vegetation with its environment. Information about the autecology and synecology of species can be utilized in computer programs to measure the impact of man upon the ecosystem. This information will contribute increasingly to wilderness management. Change seems to be of great importance and habitat manipulation through planned large-scale or small-scale disturbance will contribute to new concepts in phytosociology. Research will have to be directed to the total ecosystem and its own environment, and to the most desirable disequilibrium of such an ecosystem. In such research, system analysis and model simulation will play key roles in the future.

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Model Simulation Computer Program Floristic Composition Species Tolerance Vegetational Response 
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  • Rudolf W. Becking
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  1. 1.Humboldt State CollegeArcataUSA

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