Eberhard Schnepf

Hubert Ziegler

Hermann Merxmüller

Heinz Ellenberg

Karl Esser

Nachdem die "Fortschritte der Botanik" viele Jahre fast ausschlie߭ lich in deutscher Sprache erschienen sind, ist nun erstmals der über wiegende Teil in Englisch abgefaßt. Es ist nur folgerichtig, wenn das auch im Titel zum Ausdruck kommt. Der Entschluß zu dieser tief greifenden Veränderung fiel den Herausgebern und dem Verlag nicht leicht, doch erschien er uns notwendig. Englisch wächst immer mehr in die Rolle des mittelalterlichen Lateins hinein; es wird von Wissenschaftlern in aller Welt verstanden. Anglo amerikaner und sonstige mit Englisch Aufgewachsene verwerten kaum noch die anderssprachige Literatur. Die "Fortschritte" können hier eine allen zugängliche Brücke bilden, indem sie wie bisher Publika tionen aus vielen Sprachen berücksichtigen, diese aber in Englisch besprechen. Am Grundcharakter der Reihe ändert sich dadurch nichts. Sie verfolgt weiterhin das Ziel, konzentriert und rasch (oder in höchstens 2- bis 3-jährigem Turnus) über alle Teilgebiete der Botanik zu berichten und dabei solche Arbeiten auszuwählen, die nennenswerte sachliche oder methodische Fortschritte brachten. Entsprechend der zunehmenden Spe zialisierung beteiligen sich hieran zahlreiche Mitarbeiter. Die Muttersprache fast all dieser Mitarbeiter ist nicht das Engli sche; deshalb sollte man ihnen manche sprachli-chen Mängel nachsehen. Eine gebührende Erfassung der nicht-englischen Literatur wird weiter hin angestrebt. Wer hierzu nicht in der Lage ist, wird auch in Z~ kunft nur ausnahmsweise als Mitarbeiter in Frage kommen. Die-meisten Autoren haben sich mit der englischen Fassung einverstanden erklärt.

Morphologie - Physiologie - Genetik - Systematik - Geobotanik

Fortschritte der Botanik

Morphology · Physiology · Genetics · Taxonomy · Geobotany / Morphologie · Physiologie · Genetik · Systematik · Geobotanik

Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik

Dieter Mueller-Dombois

This book was written 30 years ago as the first synthesis of European and Anglo-American methods in vegetation ecology. Upon its publication in 1974, it rapidly became the standard text for the study of vegetation in over 60 US colleges and universities. An unsolicited review appeared in Ecology 56: 1233 (1975) with the title "Getting It All Together in Plant Synecology." The book also received wide international acceptance. "In his foreword to the 1974 edition, Raymond Fosberg referred to this book as 'by far the best work of its scope that I know.' It is still agreed that there is no comparable work. It was used as the only textbook for the first twenty offerings of one graduate course. For the past dozen years it's been moved to the recommended list because it has been out of print. There have been several vegetation science textbooks published since 1974, but their foci have been on ordination and multivariate data analysis instead of on sampling methods. No other text has covered the subject of vegetation sampling design in such depth, breadth, and impartiality as this book, Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology. Most of this material remains as current and topical today as it was a quarter of a century ago, because the progress that has been made in vegetation science is in the computer-based treatment of sample data, not in the creation of new sampling protocols.A new generation of vegetation ecologists can now have the same advantage - the same easy access to this classic reference work - that a past generation had in quantifying and summarizing the formidable complexity of natural, wildland vegetation." Foreword by Michael G. Barbour, Plant Ecologist, University of California at Davis, Department of Environmental Horticulture, November 2002.

Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology

Christoph Leuschner

This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe’s plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on a thorough literature review with 5500 cited references and nearly 1000 figures and tables, the two books review in 26 chapters all major natural and man-made vegetation types with their climatic and edaphic influences, the structure and dynamics of their communities, the ecophysiology of important plant species, and key aspects of ecosystem functioning. Volume I deals with forests and scrub vegetation and analyses the ecology of Central Europe’s tree flora, whilst Volume II is dedicated to the non-forest vegetation covering mires, grasslands, heaths, alpine habitats and urban vegetation. The consequences of over-use, pollution and recent climate change over the last century are explored and conservation issues addressed.

Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe

Ecology of Central European Non-Forest Vegetation: Coastal to Alpine, Natural to Man-Made Habitats

Klaus Kubitzki

Morphology · Physiology · Genetics Taxonomy · Geobotany / Morphologie · Physiologie · Genetik Systematik · Geobotanik

Morphology · Physiology · Genetics · Taxonomy · Geobotany / Morphologie · Physiologie Genetik · Systematik · Geobotanik

English translation makes this unique book, now in its third edition, available to a wider audience. This book is without doubt the most important work ever published about the vegetation of central Europe and its ecology. No other book contains so much ecological information and discusses so many principles relevant not only to plant ecologists in continental Europe, but to ecologists and palaeoecologists in the British Isles and North America. Besides providing valuable syntheses of the major plant communities, Ellenberg details the ecology and environmental requirements of all the vegetation types and discusses the climatic tolerances and ecological physiology of many of the major species. The account is based upon a life time of thorough field work and experimental investigation. One of the major messages to be gleaned from the book concerns the long-lasting and considerable effects of human activity upon the vegetation, and the book therefore has much to teach about the impact of agriculture and industrial pollution and highlights the need to plan carefully for the conservation of our rich natural and semi-natural environment.

This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe’s plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on a thorough literature review with 5500 cited references and nearly 1000 figures and tables, the two books review in 26 chapters all major natural and man-made vegetation types with their climatic and edaphic influences, the structure and dynamics of their communities, the ecophysiology of important plant species, and key aspects of ecosystem functioning. Volume I deals with the forests and scrub vegetation and analyses the ecology of Central Europe’s tree flora, whilst Volume II is dedicated to the non-forest vegetation covering mires, grasslands, heaths, alpine habitats and urban vegetation. The consequences of over-use, pollution and recent climate change over the last century are explored and conservation issues addressed.

Ecology of Central European Forests

Morphology · Physiology · Genetics Taxonomy · Geobotany/Morphologie · Physiologie · Genetik Systematik · Geobotanik

Progress in Botany/Fortschritte der Botanik

Heinz Ellenberg

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