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Plant community management is often carried out without applying what is known about succession - the tendency of plant communities to change through time.
This text outlines a general model of successional management and then applies it to a variety of management techniques, examining their long-term effects on community development. A useful, practical book for those involved in the management of natural resources, and for theoretical ecologists.
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Succession management - an introduction; obtaining information on succession; plant populations - growth, decline and persistence during succession; methods of managing succession - plant and plant part removal; methods of managing succession - changing resource availability; methods of managing succession - changing propagule availability; animals and succession; ecological succession - changes due to animal activities; a landscape perspective; information systems for prediction and decision-making.
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By: J Luken
260 pages, B/w photos, figures
...a mine of information on many different habitats and types of organism an so it will be of interest and use to most conservationists... British Ecological Society Bulletin; ...short readable book..up-to-date conceptual framework..may be the best in textbook form since the..book by Miles..provides much practical advice..rarely are managers given such a proper foundation for the practical advice they are given..There is a great deal of wisdom in this little book..Altogether..is a very successful essay at applying ecological theory. TREE