1. Preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: vii - vii

2. Relations between community theory and community analysis in vegetation science: some historical perspectives

   • Imanuel Noy-Meir
   • Eddy van der Maarel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 15

3. Hierarchical complexity in ecology: a noneuclidean conception of the data space

   • T. F. H. Allen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 25

4. A dynamical systems perspective on vegetation theory

   • David W. Roberts

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 33

5. Models for the analysis of species' response to environmental gradients

   • M. P. Austin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 45

6. The individualistic and community-unit concepts as falsifiable hypotheses

   • Bill Shipley
   • Paul A. Keddy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 55

7. Compositional dissimilarity as a robust measure of ecological distance

   • Daniel P. Faith
   • Peter R. Minchin
   • Lee Belbin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 68

8. The analysis of vegetation-environment relationships by canonical correspondence analysis

   • Cajo J. F. Ter Braak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 77

9. Ecological amplitudes of plant species and the internal consistency of Ellenberg's indicator values for moisture

   • Cajo J. F. Ter Braak
   • Niek J. M. Gremmen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 87

10. An evaluation of the relative robustness of techniques for ecological ordination

    • Peter R. Minchin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 107

11. A hierarchical consideration of causes and mechanisms of succession

    • S. T. A. Pickett
    • S. L. Collins
    • J. J. Armesto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 114

12. The role of expert systems in vegetation science

    • I. R. Noble

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 121

13. Invasion models of vegetation dynamics

    • Robert Van Hulst

    OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 131

14. Modeling of vegetation dynamics in the Mississippi River deltaic plain

    • Marcel Rejmánek
    • Charles E. Sasser
    • James G. Gosselink

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 140

15. Gophers and grassland: a model of vegetation response to patchy soil disturbance

    • R. J. Hobbs
    • V. J. Hobbs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 146

16. Description and simulation of tree-layer composition and size distributions in a primaeval Picea-Pinus forest

    • Rik Leemans
    • I. Colin Prentice

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 156

17. The separation of fluctuation and long-term change in vegetation dynamics of a rising seashore

    • Wolfgang Cramer
    • Håkan Hytteborn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 167

18. Regeneration dynamics of beech forests in Japan

    • Tohru Nakashizuka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 175

19. The appearance and disappearance of major vegetational assemblages: Long-term vegetational dynamics in eastern North America

    • Thompson Webb III

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 187

20. Climate and plant distribution at global and local scales

    • F. I. Woodward
    • B. G. Williams

    OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 197

21. Alternate plant life history strategies and coexistence in randomly varying environments

    • Stephen Ellner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 208

22. Beyond reductionism and scholasticism in plant community ecology

    • Paul A. Keddy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 211

23. Some models of catastrophic behavior in exploited forests

    • Marino Gatto
    • Sergio Rinaldi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 222