Self-organization and mediated transience in plant communities: What are the rules? - Softcover

Orlóci FRSC, Dr. László

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461028221 ISBN 13: 9781461028222

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

A novel, signal theoretical solution is sketched out for the ecological problem of how to identify and quantitatively express the assembly rules of plant communities. A case study for testing the solution leads to the astonishing conclusion that the phylogenetic signal outperforms the current environmental signal in intensity close to 7 to 1. This indicates high stability and low inclination to environment mediated transience in the community.

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About the Author:

László Orlóci was born in Hungary in 1932. He holds degrees in forest engineering (DFE Sopron), forestry science and biology (BSF, MSc, PhD University of British Columbia), and DSc h.c. in biology (University of Trieste). Orlóci held appointments as NATO Science Fellow (University College of North Wales), professor (University of Western Ontario), and visiting professor at universities in the Americas, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe. He is an INTECOL Distinguished Statistical Ecologists, external (academician) member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and regular Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1461028221
• ISBN 13: 9781461028222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70