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| Title Details: | |
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Rangeland vegetation dynamics |
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| Authors: |
Vrachnakis, Michail |
| Reviewer: |
Papanastasis, Vasileios |
| Subject: | NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES > LAND RESOURCES > LAND > RANGELAND MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > FUCTIONAL AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY > ZOOLOGY/ANIMAL BIOLOGY > ORGANIC ANIMAL FARMING MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES > FUCTIONAL AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY > ECOLOGY > RANGE COLOGY NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCES, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT > LAND MANAGEMENT > RANGE MANAGEMENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > HEALTH SCIENCES > NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES > ANIMAL NUTRITION |
| Keywords: |
Interference
Competition Succession Self-thinning Facilitation Intraspecific Interspecific Susbstitution Rate Resource |
| Description: | |
| Abstract: |
The aim of the Unit is to understand the basic principles of rangeland vegetation dynamics in terma of interference and succession. Rangeland plants, together with the specific environmental characteristics of rangeland habitat types (link to the previous Unit) covary in time and space. The critical ecological factors and the positive, negative or neutral interactions that occur between the same (intraspecific and interspecific) or different trophic levels are descibed. Emphasis is placed on the importance of grazing (link to the next module) and the feedback it generates, as a natural regulatory process in rangeland ecosystems.
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| Table of Contents: |
Unit 5. Dynamics of Rangeland vegetation
5.1 Purpose of population dynamics 5.2 Density - denity dependence - self-thinning 5.3 Theory of interference mechanism 5.4 Critical resources and their types 5.5 Interference and types of interactions - Competition and facilitation 5.6 Experimental mixture designs - exploring interference relations 5.7 The response model (Spitters - Connolly) Parallel documents Related web sources References Evaluation criteria A. Activities B. Self assessment |
| Technical Editors: |
Rapti, Elli Tantos, Alexandros |
| Type: |
Chapter |
| Creation Date: | 2015 |
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| License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/1199 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Vrachnakis, M. (2015). Rangeland vegetation dynamics [Chapter]. In Vrachnakis, M. 2015. RANGELAND SCIENCE [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/1199 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Is Part of: |
RANGELAND SCIENCE |
| Number of pages |
22 |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |