Call number:
AWI G5-98-0150
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XVII, 386 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
ISBN:
0521361095
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Ecology
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/exlibris/aleph/a22_1/apache_media/2TJABXH5K4V648VSBSIJP1I8EVRI2X.pdf
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 Glacier forelands and simplicity
1.2 Ecology and primary succession
1.3 Space-for-time substitution (chronosequences)
1.4 Geoecology (landscape ecology)
2 The nature of the timescale
2.1 Glacier variations
2.2 Dating techniques
2.2.1 Historical sources
2.2.2 Biological dating
2.2.3 Physico-chemical dating
2.3 Terrain age sequences and areal chronologies
3 The physical landscape
3.1 The legacy of glaciation
3.1.1 Glacial erosion
3.1.2 Glacial sediments
3.1.3 Depositional landforms and landsystems
3.2 Proglacial landscape modification
3.2.1 Glacio-fluvial activity
3.2.2 Consolidation and slope stabilization
3.2.3 Pervection
3.2.4 Cryogenic processes: frost weathering
3.2.5 Frost-heave and frost-sorting
3.2.6 Solifluction and other periglacial slope processes
3.2.7 Nivation
3.2.8 Aeolian processes
3.3 The climatic environment
3.3.1 Regional climate
3.3.2 Meso-scale climatic gradients
3.3.3 Microclimate
3.3.4 Climatic change
3.4 Spatial variation and change in the physical landscape
3.4.1 Spatial patterns at various scales
3.4.2 Physical processes and landscape change
4 Soil development
4.1 Soil chronosequences and chronofunctions
4.1.1 Conceptual framework
4.1.2 An example: Glacier Bay, Alaska
4.2 Soil properties and pedogenic processes
4.2.1 Texture
4.2.2 Micromorphology
4.2.3 Organic content
4.2.4 pH and base status
4.2.5 Iron and aluminium
4.2.6 Chemical weathering processes
4.2.7 Nitrogen
4.2.8 Phosphorus
4.3 Environmental controls on pedogenesis
4.3.1 Parent material
4.3.2 Topography
4.3.3 Biota
4.3.4 Climatic controls
4.4 Soil formation in time and space
4.4.1 Soil development and equilibrium concepts
4.4.2 Spatial variation and soil chronosequences
5 Plant succession: patterns and environmental factors
5.1 Vegetational chronosequences: methodological considerations
5.1.1 Concept and limitations
5.1.2 Tests of chronoseauences: observed successions
5.1.3 Tests of chronosequences: retrospective analysis
5.2 Inferred successional trends
5.2.1 Cover
5.2.2 Spatial organization
5.2.3 Stratification and physiognomy
5.2.4 Biomass
5.2.5 Species diversity
5.2.6 Species composition and successional stages
5.2.7 Population attributes and physiological traits
5.3 Spatial variation and successional pathways
5.3.1 Within-foreland patterns: mapping
5.3.2 Quantitative community analysis at Storbreen, Jotunheimen
5.3.3 Inferred successional pathways elsewhere
5.3.4 Between-foreland patterns: a comparative approach
5.4 Environmental controls on successional sequences
5.4.1 Initial site conditions
5.4.2 Environmental factors as influx variables
5.4.3 Environmental factor complexes
6 Plant succession: processes and models
6.1 Biological processes of colonization and succession
6.1 Migration
6.2 Ecesis
6.3 Reaction
6.4 Facilitation
6.5 Competition
6.6 Allelopathy, herbivory and pathogens
6.7 Stabilization
6.2 Models
6.2.1 Monoclimax and polyclimax
6.2.2 Climax pattern and site climax
6.2.3 Relay floristics and IFC
6.2.4 Non-selective and selective autosuccession
6.2.5 Facilitation, tolerance and inhibition
6.2.6 Chronic disturbance, competitive hierarchy and resource ratio
6.2.7 Evolutionary strategies
6.2.8 Vital attributes, process interactions and a causal hierarchy
6.3 A geoecological model
6.3.1 Coupling of physical and biological processes
6.3.2 Spatio-temporal dynamics
7 The ecological significance of recently-deglaciated terrain
7.1 Chronosequences
7.2 The geoecological approach
7.3 Some broader implications
References
Index
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