Positive Interactions and Interdependence in Plant Communities

• Main Author: Callaway, Ragan M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Terrestial Ecology.

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 commun...

Table of Contents:

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