Plant demography in vegetation succession

1: Theoretical and Methodical Fundamentals.- 1. Introduction and Aim.- 2. Assumptions and Terminology.- 3. Study Area and Methodological Basis.- 2: Vegetation Dynamics.- 4. Old and Present Diversity of the Reski Range Vegetation.- 5. Sequence of Species.- 6. Course of Secondary Succession.- 3: Biological Mechanisms of Species Turnover.- 7. Individual and Succession.- 8. Plant Traits and Species Turnover.- 9. Role of Species in the Succession Process.- 10. Recapitulation: Succession as a Plant-By-Plant Replacement Process.- 4: Plant Demography and Population Dynamics.- 11. Succession as the Result of Demographic Processes.- 12. Reproduction and Succession.- 13. Population Spatial Structure Dynamics During Succession.- 14. Population Individual-Size Structure in Succession Processes.- 15. Recapitulation: Population Size and Population Changes.- 5 (Synthesis): Population Dynamics and Vegetation Dynamics.- 16. Succession: A Population Process.- 17. Plant Strategies in Secondary Successions.- 18. Mechanisms of Succession.- 19. Spatial Variations.- 20. Return of Forest in Meadows — Causes, Mechanisms, Processes.- Systematic Index.