Vegetation dynamics in grasslans, heathlands and mediterranean ligneous formations

Symposium of the Working Group for Succession Research on Permanent Plots, and Data-Processing of the International Society for Vegetation Sciences, Held at Montpellier, France, September 1980

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Permanent quadrats: An interface for theory and practice.- Modelling ecological succession, with particular reference to Markovian models.- An analysis of succession along an environmental gradient using data from a lawn.- Probing time series vegetation data for evidence of succession.- Towards the analysis of vegetation succession.- Problems in heathland and grassland dynamics.- Zur Sukzession der mediterranen Vegetation auf der Insel Lokrum bei Dubrovnik.- Processus dynamiques de reconstitution dans la série du Quercus ilex en Corse.- Development of flora, vegetation and grazing value in experimental plots of a Quercus coccifera garrigue.- Changes in the floristic composition of a Quercus coccifera L. garrigue in relation to different fire regimes.- The effects of protection on steppic vegetation in the Mediterranean arid zone of Southern Tunisia.- Vegetation dynamics in a coastal grassland of Hawaii.- Dynamics of some Western Australian ligneous formations with special reference to the invasion of exotic species.- Community dynamics in relation to management of heathland vegetation in Scotland.- Vegetation dynamics in Brittany heathlands after fire.- Pattern development of the vegetation during colonization of a burnt heathland in Brittany (France).- The spatial autocorrelation matrix.- The effect of fertilization and irrigation on the vegetation dynamics of a pine-heath ecosystem.- Conservation of Calluno-Vaccinietum heathland in the Belgian Ardennes, an experimental approach.- Grassland dynamics under sheep grazing in an Australian Mediterranean type climate.- Rates of change in vegetation during secondary succession.- Temporal variation of species composition and species diversity in permanent grassland plots with different fertilizer treatments.- The effect of cutting and fertilizing on the floristic composition and production of an Arrhenatherion elatioris grassland.- From intensively agricultural practices to hay-making without fertilization.- Fluctuations in a coastal dune grassland due to fluctuations in rainfall: Experimental evidence.- Succession, diversité et amplitude de niche dans les pâturages du centre de la péninsule ibérique.- The effect of cement factory air pollution on thermophilous rocky grassland.- List of lectures and poster contributions presented at the Symposium.