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Herbaceous Plant Ecology

Recent Advances in Plant Ecology

  • A. G. Van der Valk
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-VI
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  2. Plant species richness and diversity of the serpentine areas on the Witwatersrand
    R. A. Reddy, K. Balkwill, T. McLellan
    Pages 1-17
  3. Temporal changes in species diversity and composition in abandoned fields in a trans-Himalayan landscape, Nepal
    Chitra Bahadur Baniya, Torstein Solhøy, Ole R. Vetaas
    Pages 19-35
  4. Role of desert annuals in nutrient flow in arid area of Northwestern China: a nutrient reservoir and provider
    Bao-Ming Chen, Gen-Xuan Wang, Shao-Lin Peng
    Pages 37-45
  5. The effects of fire frequency and grazing on tallgrass prairie productivity and plant composition are mediated through bud bank demography
    Harmony J. Dalgleish, David C. Hartnett
    Pages 47-56
  6. Do plant functional types based on leaf dry matter content allow characterizing native grass species and grasslands for herbage growth pattern?
    Michel Duru, Raouda Al Haj Khaled, Camille Ducourtieux, Jean Pierre Theau, Fernando L. F. de Quadros, Pablo Cruz
    Pages 57-69
  7. Clonal growth strategies in simultaneously persistent and expanding Trifolium repens patches
    Line Johansen
    Pages 71-80
  8. California native and exotic perennial grasses differ in their response to soil nitrogen, exotic annual grass density, and order of emergence
    Joel K. Abraham, Jeffrey D. Corbin, Carla M. D’Antonio
    Pages 81-92
  9. Do seed and microsite limitation interact with seed size in determining invasion patterns in flooding Pampa grasslands?
    Lorena P. Herrera, Pedro Laterra
    Pages 93-105
  10. Feral horses dung piles as potential invasion windows for alien plant species in natural grasslands
    Alejandro Loydi, Sergio Martín Zalba
    Pages 107-116
  11. Reproductive allocation of Carex flava reacts differently to competition and resources in a designed plant mixture of five species
    Matthias Suter
    Pages 117-125
  12. Factors affecting the establishment and growth of annual legumes in semi-arid mediterranean grasslands
    Theodora P. Merou, Vasilios P. Papanastasis
    Pages 127-136
  13. Are irrigation and grazing effects transferred, accumulated, or counteracted during plant recruitment?
    Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho, Salvador Rebollo
    Pages 137-151
  14. Extent and spatial patterns of grass bald land cover change (1948–2000), Oregon Coast Range, USA
    Harold S. J. Zald
    Pages 153-165
  15. Grass (Poaceae) richness patterns across China’s nature reserves
    Qing Liu, Xuejun Ge, Wenli Chen, J. Travis Columbus
    Pages 167-187
  16. Interacting effects of grass height and herbivores on the establishment of an encroaching savanna shrub
    Nicole Hagenah, Helena Munkert, Karin Gerhardt, Han Olff
    Pages 189-202
  17. Effects of competition on root–shoot allocation in Plantago lanceolata L.: adaptive plasticity or ontogenetic drift?
    Frank Berendse, Frans Möller
    Pages 203-209
  18. Rock-colonizing plants: abundance of the endemic cactus Mammillaria fraileana related to rock type in the southern Sonoran Desert
    Blanca R. Lopez, Yoav Bashan, Macario Bacilio, Gustavo De la Cruz-Agüero
    Pages 211-224
  19. Ecophysiological responses of nine floodplain meadow species to changing hydrological conditions
    Vincent Jung, Lucien Hoffmann, Serge Muller
    Pages 225-234
  20. Tolerance of a perennial herb, Pimpinella saxifraga, to simulated flower herbivory and grazing: immediate repair of injury or postponed reproduction?
    A-P. Huhta, P. Rautio, K. Hellström, M. Saari, J. Tuomi
    Pages 235-245
  21. Differential herbivory tolerance of dominant and subordinate plant species along gradients of nutrient availability and competition
    Pejman Tahmasebi Kohyani, B. Bossuyt, D. Bonte, M. Hoffmann
    Pages 247-255
  22. Responses of clonal architecture to experimental defoliation: a comparative study between ten grassland species
    Marie-Lise Benot, Cendrine Mony, Sara Puijalon, Majid Mohammad-Esmaeili, Jacques J. M. van Alphen, Jan-Bernard Bouzillé et al.
    Pages 257-266
  23. Diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa Lam.) seedling emergence and establishment in a Colorado grassland
    Paul J. Meiman, Edward F. Redente, Mark W. Paschke
    Pages 267-274
  24. Biodiversity and tallgrass prairie decomposition: the relative importance of species identity, evenness, richness, and micro-topography
    Timothy L. Dickson, Brian J. Wilsey
    Pages 275-285
  25. Herbivory and local genetic differentiation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae)
    Asghar Mosleh Arany, Tom J. de Jong, Ed van der Meijden
    Pages 287-295
  26. The effect of nutrient supply and light intensity on tannins and mycorrhizal colonisation in Dutch heathland ecosystems
    Jantineke D. Hofland-Zijlstra, Frank Berendse
    Pages 297-311
  27. Spatial and temporal dynamics of floating and drift-line seeds at a tidal freshwater marsh on the Potomac River, USA
    K. N. Hopfensperger, A. H. Baldwin
    Pages 313-322
  28. Estimating plant competition coefficients and predicting community dynamics from non-destructive pin-point data: a case study with Calluna vulgaris and Deschampsia flexuosa
    Christian Damgaard, Torben Riis-Nielsen, Inger Kappel Schmidt
    Pages 323-333
  29. Disturbance by mowing affects clonal diversity: the genetic structure of Ranunculus ficaria (Ranunculuaceae) in meadows and forests
    Christoph Reisch, Sebastian Scheitler
    Pages 335-343
  30. Soil amendment effects on the exotic annual grass Bromus tectorum L. and facilitation of its growth by the native perennial grass Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth
    Jayne Belnap, Susan K. Sherrod
    Pages 345-357
  31. Effects of fire on the vegetation of a lowland heathland in North-western Italy
    Luca Borghesio
    Pages 359-367

About this book

Introduction

This volume provides an overview of recent advances in the ecology of various kinds of non-forested ecosystems (grasslands, deserts, and wetlands) on a variety of topics, including species diversity and the factors that control species diversity, impacts of disturbances (grazing, mowing, fire, flooding), establishment and reproduction ecology, and plant-plant interactions.

 

Previously published in Plant Ecology, Volume 201, No.2, 2009.

Keywords

Competition Disturbance Grazing Reproductive ecology Species diversity Vegetation ecology

Editors and affiliations

  • A. G. Van der Valk
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal BiologyIowa State UniversityAmesUSA

Bibliographic information

  • Book Title Herbaceous Plant Ecology
  • Book Subtitle Recent Advances in Plant Ecology
  • Editors Arnold van der Valk
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2798-6
  • Copyright Information Springer Netherlands 2009
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
  • Hardcover ISBN 978-90-481-2797-9
  • Softcover ISBN 978-94-007-9182-4
  • eBook ISBN 978-90-481-2798-6
  • Edition Number 1
  • Number of Pages VII, 367
  • Number of Illustrations 0 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
  • Additional Information Reprinted from Plant Ecology 201, No. 2, 2009.
  • Topics Plant Ecology
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