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Titre :
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Plant strategies, vegetation processes, and ecosystem properties
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Auteurs :
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J. Grime
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Type de document :
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ouvrage
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Editeur :
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Chichester [Grande-Bretagne] : John Wiley & Sons, 2001
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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0-471-49601-4
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Format :
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417 p.
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Note générale :
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rés. des chapitres ; références p.349-403
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Langues:
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= Anglais
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Catégories :
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Ecologie végétale
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Mots-clés:
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ECOLOGIE VEGETALE
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VEGETATION
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ECOSYSTEME
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CONCURRENCE VEGETALE
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SUCCESSION VEGETALE
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DYNAMIQUE DE VEGETATION
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ADAPTATION AU MILIEU
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Résumé :
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This document is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the "Plant strategies and vegetation processes" (1979), which controversially proposed the existence of widely-recurring plant functional types with predictable relationships to vegetation structure and dynamics. A large quantity of data is now available to those who seek to understand how vegetation functions and is caused to vary in composition from place to place and with the passage of time. Although it is generally recognised by plant ecologists that there is a need to deploy this wealth of information within a succinct conceptual framework, opinions differ as to how this may be achieved. The purpose of this book is to examine one approach to the problem by attempting to recognise the major adaptive strategies (functional types) which have evolved in plants, and to relate these to the processes which determine the structure and species composition of vegetation and the properties of ecosystems. Plant strategies may be defined as groupings of similar or analogous genetic characteristics which recur widely among species or populations and cause them to exhibit similarities in ecology.
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