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The periodic eruption of volcanoes, with emission and deposition of rock materials which originated, molten and sterile, in the depths of the Earth, provides new sites which plants colonize. Patterns of vegetation change on new land surfaces have been less thoroughly investigated than the changes that occur after disturbance of established vegetation (considered at greater length in Chs 7, 9 & 10). However, the development of vegetation on new volcanic debris is an appropriate starting point for the examination of vegetation change processes.
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Burrows, C.J. (1990). Vegetation development on volcanic ejecta. In: Processes of Vegetation Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3058-5_4
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