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In 1916, F.E.Clements published his great work Plant Succession. His dynamic approach became the orthodox view of plant geography in the USA and was largely adopted by Tansley and Braun-Blanquet as well. It was a grand theoretical conception, but it did not reflect real conditions in the natural environment and is a good example of the dangers inherent in theorizing in ecology without wide field experience. This may still arise today, particularly in the case of those authors who lack all experience of truly natural environments where there has been very little human interference.
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Walter, H., Breckle, SW. (1985). Succession—Climax—Zonal Vegetation. In: Ecological Systems of the Geobiosphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02437-9_8
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