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In this chapter, the concept and thus the outline of the revised edition is introduced. This edition includes five parts: “Molecular Ecology”, “Physiological and Biophysical Ecology”, “Ecosystem Ecology”, “Community Ecology” and “Global Ecology”. Many links across these five parts facilitate reading and, hopefully, the understanding of plant ecological concepts and mechanisms on different organizational scales. Agriculture and silviculture are addressed, as well as global change, and their impacts on plants, communities and terrestrial ecosystems.
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It has been a pleasure, but also a great task, to write the second edition of this book, at the cost of what everyone lacks the most: time. Therefore, our families deserve our main gratitude, since they have given us the time and the support to carry out this work. Moreover, without the support of and discussions with many friends and colleagues, it would not have been possible to finish this revised second edition of the book. Thus, the authors express their thankfulness to Werner Eugster (Zurich), who critically reviewed Chap. 9; Eckhard George (Grossbeeren), who critically reviewed Chap. 11; Neringa Mannerheim (Zurich), who commented on Chaps. 10 and 12; Fritz Schweingruber (Birmensdorf) for his input into Chap. 12; and Kevin Solarik (Edmonton), who reviewed and linguistically improved Chaps. 17 and 18. Cornelia and Axel Paulsch (Regensburg) provided the description of the Convention of Biological Diversity in Chap. 23; Jed Kaplan (Lausanne) provided high-resolution maps, and Matti Barthel (Zurich) provided input into Part V. Special thanks go to Anna Gilgen (Zurich), who not only inspected equations and references but also checked the comprehensibility of Parts II, III and V in a tireless fashion and kept track of the many big and small tasks related to the writing of this second edition. We also greatly acknowledge the technical assistance of Barbara Lühker (Heidelberg) and Annett Boerner (Adelaide) for the first edition. Special thanks also go to Alexandra Böhminghaus (Freiburg), Ursula Ferrera (Bayreuth) and Sabina Keller (Zurich) for their technical support to complete the second edition.
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Schulze, ED., Beck, E., Buchmann, N., Clemens, S., Müller-Hohenstein, K., Scherer-Lorenzen, M. (2019). Introduction. In: Plant Ecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56233-8_1
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