Vegetation ecology is usually divided into two broad research areas, floristic/environmental
gradient analysis and studies of vegetation dynamics. The early influential American …

Ecology and natural history have a long tradition of interest in the spatial patterning and
geographic distribution of organisms. The latitudinal and altitudinal distribution of vegetative …

The land surfaces of the Hawaiian islands represent an age sequence from very recent on
the island of Hawaii to over 5 million years old on the island of Kauai. Development of …

The heterogeneous vegetation mosaic of the South Turkana region of north Kenya is
associated with diversity in the region's physical environment. The abundance and …

There is a growing consensus that relatively few factors with broad applicability underlie
changes in the structure of different plant communities along different environmental …

The importance of dispersal as a mechanism for sus-taining individual plant species
populations is not often considered in synecological studies. Some theorists have …

The scale at which plants utilize spatially distributed resources may be determined by their
ability to locate sites that can sustain population growth. We developed a spatially-explicit …

Population death or synchronized plant-group dying or dieback, as constrasted with
individual plant dying or single plant death, is a common phenomenon in Hawaiian plant …

The primary‐successional sere of a Hawaiian montane rain forest was inferred from an age
sequence of eight closely located 'a'ā flows (clinker type lava); 8, 50, 140, ca. 300, ca. 400 …

Vegetation development following goat removal in a tropical grassland with a Mediterranean
rainfall seasonality on leeward Hawaii is reported from two permanent monitoring sites. The …