VanDer Valk A. (Ed.) Forest Ecology: Recent Advances in Plant Ecology

Springer, 2009. — 358 p. — ISBN: 9048127947, 9789048127955This volume provides an overview of recent advances in forest ecology on a variety of topics, including species diversity and the factors that control species diversity, environmental factors controlling distribution of forests, impacts of disturbances on forests (fires, drought, hurricane), reproduction ecology of both trees and understory species, and spatial organization of forests.
Keywords » Disturbance - Forest structure - Regeneration ecology - Species diversity - Vegetation