Predicting the effects of anthropogenic changes in climate, atmospheric composition and
land use on vegetation patterns has been a central concern of recent ecological research …

R iver floodplains are attrac-tive places to settle for plants, animals and, since, the beginning
of agriculture, people. Human habitation of floodplains is steadily increasing worldwide, as …

A heuristic framework for understanding and predicting the distribution and categorical
abundance of species in stream communities is presented. The framework requires that …

Standardised procedures have been used to measure 67 traits in 43 common plants of the
British flora. This paper provides an interpretation of the most consistent patterns in the …

A wide range of terms such as' guild'and'functional type'have been used to describe
grou**s of species made on an ecological basis. However, such grou**s have been …

The present paper reviews the literature on reproduction, survial, dispersion and competition
in aquatic plants of mostly European rivers. The specificity of the strategies of colonization in …

Diversity theory predicts that species numbers should be highest at intermediate levels of
both disturbance and environmental stress. We examined woody and herbaceous plant …

Numbered in hundreds of thousands, and ranging from< 1ha in area to Europe's largest lake
(Lake Ladoga), North European softwater lakes (lime-deficient waterbodies, ranging from …

This article critically reviews the concept of plant functional types as an alternative to the
traditional taxonomic species-based approach to plant community description in …

This review highlights four major topics in plant flooding research: the processes underlying
vegetation zonation in the floodplain, the challenges of using model species to reveal …