Temporal and spatial patterns of vegetation dynamics

Vegetation dynamics: patterns in time and space.- On the ecology and evolution of annual plants in disturbed environments.- Background processes at the population level during succession in grasslands on sand.- Influence of climate and community composition on the population demography of pasture species in semi-arid Australia.- Linear trend in multi-species time series.- Gaps in the canopy: the missing dimension in vegetation dynamics.- A reappraisal of cyclical processes in Calluna heath.- Forest decline: endogenous dynamics, tree defenses, and the elimination of spurious correlation.- Factors in Pinus ponderosa and Calocedrus decurrens mortality in Yosemite Valley, USA.- Stand-level dieback and regeneration of forests in the Gal¿gos Islands.- Mechanisms of succession on fallow lands.- An experimental study of old-field succession in relation to different environmental factors.- Succession, regeneration and fluctuation in the Bialowicza Forest (NE Poland).- Plant population dynamics and species turnover on small islands near Karpathos (South Aegean, Greece).- Vascular plant colonization and vegetation development on sea-born volcanic islands in the Aegean (Greece).- Vegetation development on the outer islands of the Bothnian Bay.- Primary succession over sixty years on hundred-year old islets in Lake Hj¿aren, Sweden.- The dynamics of the dune vegetation on the Polish Baltic coast.- Vegetation dynamics of the savannization process on Cuba.- Successional pathways of Mediterranean evergreen vegetation on Sicily.- Species diversity of mainland- and island forests in the Pacific area.