Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 537 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 285 mm, Gewicht: 1592 g
Reihe: Geobotany
Ecological Studies in Bia¿owieza Forest
Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 537 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 285 mm, Gewicht: 1592 g
Reihe: Geobotany
ISBN: 978-90-6193-534-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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I. Aim and Premisses.- I.1. Introduction, aim and subject.- I.2. Theoretical basis.- I.3. Study area. Methodical basis. Material.- II. The Area — Basic Data about Bia?owie?a Forest.- II. 1. General features.- II.2. Biogeography.- II.3. History.- II.4. Climate.- II.5. Geology.- II.6. Terrain formation and relief.- II.7. Hydrology.- III. Geobotany.- III.1. The flora.- III.2. Forest building trees and tree stands.- III.3. Forest vegetation.- III.4. Natural and anthropogenic non-forest vegetation.- IV. Major Natural Factors Differentiating the Forest Environment and Landscape.- IV.1. General introduction.- IV.2. Soils in relation to forest vegetation differentiation.- IV.3. Ground frost and snow cover as ecoclimatic factors.- IV.4. The transition zone (ecotone) and its synchorological and syndynamic aspects.- IV.5. Uprooting of trees (tree saltation).- IV.6. Impact of herbivorous animals on vegetation structure and dynamics.- V. Fluctuatuation, Regeneration and Succession in Forest Communities under Natural Conditions.- V.1. General introduction.- V.2. Regression of thermophilous oak forest.- V.3. Field layer regeneration in pine forest (Peucedano-Pinetum) after ground fire.- V.4. Tree stand dynamics in Pino-Quercetum and Tilio-Carpinetum communities.- 4.6. Discussion.- V.5. Permanence of species composition and repeatability of seasonal rhythms in a many-years cycle as indicator of stability (homeostasis) of forest communities.- V.6. Changes in the species composition and structure of the main forest and brush communities.- V.7. State and dynamic tendencies of forest communities.- VI. Seasonal Dynamics of Forest Communities.- VI.1. Introduction.- VI.2. Phenological characteristics of forest and brush communities.- VI.3. Synphenological analysis.- VI.4.Floristic-ecological analysis of seasonal dynamics of forest communities.- VI.5. Phytophenological seasons in the forest communities of the Bia?owie?a Forest.- VII. Dynamics and Structure of Plant Populations in Forest Ecosystems.- VII.1. The notion of cenopopulations and the basis for their distinction.- VII.2. Phenological individuality of cenopopulations.- VII.3. Reproductive strategy of perennial herbaceous plant populations in forest ecosystems.- VII.4. Estimation of potential reproduction of forest phytocenoses.- VII.5. Plant populations in stabilised forest ecosystems.- VII.6. Plant populations in the ecotones between forest ecosystems.- VII.7. Population structure of forest communities.- VIII. Behaviour of Natural Forest under Man’s Activity Synanthropisation of the Plant Cover.- VIII.1. Introduction. The notion of synanthropisation.- VIII.2. Factors of synanthropisation.- VIII.3. History of anthropogenic changes in the plant cover of the Bia?owie?a Primeval Forest.- VIII.4. Some selected phenomena.- VIII.5. Relations between anthropogenic vegetation and habitats of definite forest communities.- VIII.6. Changes in the abiotic environment.- VIII.7. Tentative balance and generalisation.- IX. Spontaneous Return of Forest onto Once Cleared Areas-Secondary Succession.- IX.1. Introduction.- IX.2. Examples of spontaneous changes in vegetation on anthropogenic terrain forms and secondary habitats.- IX.3. Secondary succession in a mesotrophic oak-linden-hornbeam forest habitat.- IX.4. Secondary succession in an oligotrophic pine forest habitat and the role of woody species.- IX.5. Properties, role and origin of woody species participating in secondary succession in permanently deforested habitats.- IX.6. Time indispensable for recreation of the main types offorest ecosystems by way of secondary succession.- X. Recapitulation: Foundations of Functioning and Permanence of Lowland Primeval Forests.- X.l. Character and causes of contemporary differentiation of vegetation in the Bia?owie?a Forest.- X.2. Dynamic tendencies in natural vegetation released from anthropogenic pressure. Role of biotic-biocenotic factors in vegetation dynamics.- X.3. Essence of phenological vegetation differentiation and its connection with differentiation and stability of environmental conditions.- X.4. Effect of anthropogenic transformations of the plant cover and their importance for the permanence and functioning of forest ecosystems.- X.5. Ecological and technical-organisational bases to ensure the permanence of relict primeval lowland forests.- Annex.- Systematic index.
