Vegetation Ecology -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Vegetation ecology - an overview Eddy van der Maarel -- 2 Vegetation and environment: discontinuities and continuities M.P. Austin -- 3 Vegetation and ecosystems Christoph Leuschner -- 4 Vegetation types and their broad-scale distribution Elgene O. Box and Kazue Fujiwara -- 5 Clonal plants in the community Brita M. Svensson, Håkan Rydin and Bengt Å. Carlsson -- 6 Plant dispersal potential and its relation to species frequency and co-existence Peter Poschlod, Oliver Tackenberg and Susanne Bonn -- 7 Vegetation dynamics Steward T.A. Pickett and Mary L. Cadenasso -- 8 Diversity and ecosystem function Jan Lep -- 9 Species interactions structuring plant communities Jelte van Andel -- 10 Terrestrial plant -herbivore interactions:integrating across multiple determinants and trophic levels Mahesh Sankaran and S.J. McNaughton -- 11 Interaction between higher plants and soil-dwelling organisms Thomas W. Kuyper & Ron G.M. de Goede -- 12 Vegetation conservation, management and restoration Jan P. Bakker -- 13 Plant invasions and invasibility of plant communities Marcel Rejmánek, David M. Richardson and Petr Py ek -- 14 Vegetation ecology and global change Brian Huntley and Robert Baxter -- Index.