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Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems pp 417–445Cite as

Plant Community Structure — Spatial Partitioning of Resources

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The spatial partitioning of phytomass is considered in this chapter at three levels of community organization: the supra-organismal (patterning among suites of species, associations and “microcommunities”), the organismal (spatial patterning of a species colony or population) and the suborganismal (vertical and horizontal arrangement of leaves, stems and roots). The evergreen and facultatively deciduous shrublands of the five mediterranean-climate regions are considered, recognizing that the distinctive soil fertility levels and longer evolutionary histories of the Australian and South African heathlands reduce their comparability with other mediterranean-climate shrublands (Specht 1979a; Naveh and Whittaker 1980).

Throw away the lights, the definitions, And say of what you see in the dark That it is this or that it is that, But do not use the rotted names. How should you walk in that space and know Nothing of the madness of space, Nothing of its jocular procreations? Stevens (1937)

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  1. Department of Environment Affairs and Fisheries, South African Forestry Research Institute, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

    Frederick J. Kruger

  2. Department of Botany, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

    Derek T. Mitchell

  3. Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

    Jennifer U. M. Jarvis

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Westman, W.E. (1983). Plant Community Structure — Spatial Partitioning of Resources. In: Kruger, F.J., Mitchell, D.T., Jarvis, J.U.M. (eds) Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68935-2_22

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