Vegetation science applications for rangeland analysis and management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Paul T. Tueller

      Pages 1-8

3. Basic Vegetation Science Contributors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Plant synecology in the service of rangeland management

      • Neil E. West

      Pages 11-27

   3. Ecophysiology of range plants

      • Ronald E. Sosebee, Changgui Wan

      Pages 29-67

   4. Rangeland plant taxonomy

      • Stephan L. Hatch

      Pages 69-80

   5. New plant development in range management

      • E. Durant McArthur

      Pages 81-112

   6. Successional concepts in relation to range condition assessment

      • E. Lamar Smith

      Pages 113-133

   7. A role for nonvascular plants in management of arid and semiarid rangelands

      • Kimball T. Harper, James R. Marble

      Pages 135-169

   8. Seedbeds as selective factors in the species composition of rangeland communities

      • James A. Young

      Pages 171-188

   9. Modelling rangeland ecosystems for monitoring and adaptive management

      • Donald A. Jameson

      Pages 189-221

4. Vegetation Distribution and Organization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Vegetation-soil relationships on arid and semiarid rangelands

      • S. G. Leonard, R. L. Miles, P. T. Tueller

      Pages 225-252

   3. Vegetation attributes and their application to the management of Australian rangelands

      • A. D. Wilson, K. C. Hodgkinson, J. C. Noble

      Pages 253-294

   4. The ecology of shrubland/woodland for range use

      • Karen A. Platou, Paul T. Tueller

      Pages 295-305

   5. Tundra vegetation as a rangeland resource

      • Peter C. Lent, David R. Klein

      Pages 307-337

   6. Forest rangeland relationships

      • Barbara H. Allen

      Pages 339-362

   7. Ecological principles and their application to rangeland management practice in South Africa

      • O. J. H. Bosch, N. M. Tainton

      Pages 363-397

   8. Range management from grassland ecology

      • R. Nicholson

      Pages 399-424

   9. Riparian values as a focus for range management and vegetation science

      • Sherman Swanson

      Pages 425-445

Natural grasslands, pastures and meadows are among the vegetation types most frequently investigated with phytosociological methods. This was one of the reasons why volume 13, Application of vegetation science to grassland husbandry and agriculture, edited by W. Krause, appeared as one of the first volumes of this handbook. It appeared under the chief editorship of Prof. R. Tiixen and in his time main emphasis of the handbook was placed on Ziirich-Montpellier methods and the European vegetation. When we redesigned the handbook we felt the need to include other methods and aims of grassland analyses as well as a more global coverage of grasslands. Especially the natural dry and semidry areas of the world needed to be covered. was very fortunate in getting Prof. Tueller of the University of Reno I Nevada as an editor for this volume. He and the colleagues he motivated to compile volume 14 on Application of vegetation science to rangeland analysis and management have created a truly global coverage of the topics interesting for vegetation analyses in natural grasslands. Since volume 13 covered the problems of anthropogenically created grasslands, this topic was not expressly treated in order to avoid duplication. For the same reason no specific attempt was made to get more papers from Europe and the temperate forest region in general. The cooperation with Dr. Tueller has been very rewarding for me.

• Vegetation
• development
• ecology
• ecophysiology
• forest
• physiology
• plant
• plant development
• plants
• taxonomy

• Department of Range, Wildlife and Forestry, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, USA

  P. T. Tueller

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