Background Resurveying historical vegetation plots has become more and more popular in
recent years as it provides a unique opportunity to estimate vegetation and environmental …

Rates of change in tree communities following major disturbances are determined by a
complex set of interactions between local site factors, landscape history and structure …

Ecological conservation monitoring programmes abound at various organisational and
spatial levels from species to ecosystem. Many of them suffer, however, from the lack of …

Vegetation Ecology: Historical Notes and Outline Page 1 1 Vegetation Ecology: Historical
Notes and Outline Eddy van der Maarel 1 and Janet Franklin 2 1University of Groningen, The …

Background Livestock grazing and 'overabundance'of large wild herbivores in forested
areas have long been perceived as conflicting with the aims of both silviculture and forest …

Chronosequence and permanent plot studies are the two most common methods for
evaluating successional dynamics in plant communities. We combined these two …

Many dehesa zones in marginal areas are suffering from the abandonment of traditional
farming practices. Herbivore grazing affects grassland dynamics, changing the species …

The development of forest succession theory has been based on studies in temperate and
tropical wet forests. As rates and pathways of succession vary with the environment …

The United Nations framework convention on climate change (FCCC) commits signatory
nations to monitor changes in all fluxes and sinks of carbon, including those related to …

Many grasslands and arable fields have been abandoned in Europe in the last decades. So
far, however, ecologists have not been able to establish one general, unifying theory for …