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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kinzig, Ann P
• Pacala, Stephen
• DAVID TILMAN
• ANN P. KINZIG
• STEPHEN W. PACALA
• Tilman, David

Titel

Successional Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Ist Teil von

• The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity, 2013, p.175-212

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Any undergraduate in an introductory ecology course can list and explain the different kinds of succession (if keeping up with the material). The principal distinctions of primary versus secondary succession and competition versus facilitation have not changed substantially in several decades, providing some evidence that the broad outline of succession is well understood. Here, we focus on the most widespread and common form—secondary succession driven by competitive interactions among plants. Consider two different secondary successions in mesic forest on rich soils. In the first, a storm blows down the large trees in a late-successional stand, but spares the more