Eddy VAN DER MAAREL All in all 16 contributions could be collected. The
This volume is the second of two volumes covering the symposium
'Advances in vegetation science', which was arrangerr. ent is as
follows: held at Nijmegen, The Netherlands, from 15-19 May The
contribution by Sjors may serve as a general intro- duction to the types
of changes and their names. The 1979. This symposium was organized on
behalf of the added paper by Noble and Slatyer provides appropriate
Working Group for Data-Processing of the International Society for
Vegetation Science. After this group held its facts and views on the
mechanisms of vegetation dynamics. final meeting two years earlier it
decided to continue its Then a group of contributions follows in which
data on species behaviour, plant demography and diversity during
activities, but in a wider scope. Most members of the succession are
discussed. This includes Faliriski's study on Group felt that the
original aim, i. e. the introduction of data-processing and multivariate
methods for use in the sex structure and dynamics of pioneer woody
species, a systematic description of plant communities, was more or
fynbos diversity study by Campbell & van der Meulen and less fulfilled.
The book Data-Processing in Phytosociology, studies on Mediterranean
shrubs and trees in post-fire and postcultural developments by Trabaud
and Lepart, Hous- largely based on papers in Vegetatio, edited by E. van
der Maarel, L. Orl6ci & S. Pignatti, and to be published by sard,
Escarre and Romane, and Debussche and Romane.