A Theory of Forest Dynamics

TL;DR: In more and more countries or regions, accelerated fundamental changes of the vegetational cover are becoming apparent as mentioned in this paper and the study of these changes, including their causes and the investigation of methods to prevent undesirable consequences, is increasingly becoming a central theme of vegetation science.

TL;DR: The results suggest that both predator introduction and predator removal from an ecosystem have widespread effects on the survival and evolution of prey by altering their genomes and behaviour, even after relatively short time intervals.

TL;DR: In this article, an individual tree-based gap model is applied to the specific case of montane forests in Chiapas, Mexico, and shown that the recovery rate of tropical montane forest following disturbance is likely to be very low, even when a source of colonists is assumed to exist nearby.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use knowledge from eco-physiology, autecology, community ecology, soil science, and climatology into ecosystem-level models that accurately describe the function and temporal dynamics of forest ecosystems.