1. Introduction -- 2. Life tables and some of their components -- 3. The demography of some plant populations -- 4. The ecology of reproduction -- 5. The regulation of plant populations -- 6. Vegetative propagation and clonal growth -- 7. Interactions in mixtures of species -- 8. Coexistence and niche separation
Summary
"This relatively new approach to the study of plant ecology introduces the idea that vegetation can be analysed in terms of the plant populations of which it is composed and in terms of the births, deaths and development of individuals in these populations" -- Back cover
