Positive Interactions and Interdependence in Plant Communities

Ragan M. Callaway (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

404 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-7573-4 (ISBN)

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Positive interactions and interdependence in plant communities offers a new look at an old problem – the nature of the communities. This book marshals ecological literature from the last century on facilitation to make the case against the widely accepted “individualistic” notion of community organization. Clearly, many species in many communities would not be present without the ameliorating effects of other species. In other words, communities are not produced only by summing the population ecology of species. Concepts covered include the idea that positive interactions are more prevalent in physically stressful conditions, species specificity in facilitative interactions, indirect facilitative interactions, how facilitation contributes to diversity-ecosystem function relationships, and potential evolutionary aspects of positive interactions.

Direct Mechanisms for Facilitation.- Indirect Mechanisms for Facilitation.- Interaction Between Competition and Facilitation.- Species-Specific Positive Interactions.- Positive Interactions and Community Organization.

Zusatzinfo	XII, 404 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	90-481-7573-9 / 9048175739
ISBN-13	978-90-481-7573-4 / 9789048175734
Zustand	Neuware