Vegetation dynamics: patterns in time and space. - On the ecology and evolution of annual plants in disturbed environments. - Background processes at the population level during succession in grasslands on sand. - Influence of climate and community composition on the population demography of pasture species in semi-arid Australia. - Linear trend in multi-species time series. - Gaps in the canopy: the missing dimension in vegetation dynamics. - A reappraisal of cyclical processes in Calluna heath. - Forest decline: endogenous dynamics tree defenses and the elimination of spurious correlation. - Factors in Pinus ponderosa and Calocedrus decurrens mortality in Yosemite Valley USA. - Stand-level dieback and regeneration of forests in the Galápagos Islands. - Mechanisms of succession on fallow lands. - An experimental study of old-field succession in relation to different environmental factors. - Succession regeneration and fluctuation in the Bialowicza Forest (NE Poland). - Plant population dynamics and species turnover on small islands near Karpathos (South Aegean Greece). - Vascular plant colonization and vegetation development on sea-born volcanic islands in the Aegean (Greece). - Vegetation development on the outer islands of the Bothnian Bay. - Primary succession over sixty years on hundred-year old islets in Lake Hjälmaren Sweden. - The dynamics of the dune vegetation on the Polish Baltic coast. - Vegetation dynamics of the savannization process on Cuba. - Successional pathways of Mediterranean evergreen vegetation on Sicily. - Species diversity of mainland- and island forests in the Pacific area. Language: English