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Plant succession after interference owing to environmental disturbance has often been interpreted as a process whereby a plant community regenerates as to its inherent properties towards a semblance of its original composition and structure, analogous to the recovery of an organism from injury (Clements 1916). Recent workers, however, view succession in the context of adaptations of individual species forming spatial and temporal patterns in population development independent of any transcendent properties of the whole community (Horn 1976). Teleologically, and moreover system-theoretically, both changes in single populations and in integrated ecosystems may be considered relevant.
Contribution to the Symposium on Plant species and plant communities held at Nijmegen, 11–12 November 1976, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Professor Victor Westhoff.
Nomenclature follows Heukels-van Ooststroom. Flora van Nederland, 18e druk, 1975. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen.
The authors are greatly indebted to Dr K.F. Vaas (Yerseke) for reviewing the English text.
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Beeftink, W.G., Daane, M.C., De Munck, W., Nieuwenhuize, J. (1978). Aspects of Population Dynamics in Halimione Portulacoides Communities. In: van der Maarel, E., Werger, M.J.A. (eds) Plant Species and Plant Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9987-9_9
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