© 1. Define ecological community, and discuss significant concepts of communities.
© 2. Describe the major characteristics of a plant community, and the factors that affect them.
© 3. Define succession and discuss the various types (primary and secondary) of succession.
© 4. Discuss some of the community and ecosystem trends during succession.
© 5. Compare
and contrast the various mechanisms (facilitation, tolerance and inhibition)
suggested for succession.
© 6. Define
and explain the following terms and concepts: Allelopathy;
Association in
Community; Boundary (open versus closed; continuous versus discrete); Climax
of a
community; clumped/contagious state; Community; Dispersion of something:
Edge;
Ecotone; Exponential attenuation of a parameter; Facilitation of succession;
Floristics,
initial, Floristics; relays; Horizontal patterns; Horizontal structure;
Hydrarch
succession; Individualistic hypothesis; Inhibition of a process; Light
attenuation; Light
quality; Organismic view of community; Pioneer species; Physiognomy of
plant life
forms; Richness of a community; Uniform distribution of a community; Succession;
Vertical structure of a community; Xerarch succession.
• Outline of presentation :
For outline of presentation and for the legends of figures, see the
Handbook for the course "Biology 121 Notes, Spring, 1998, University of
Illinois, Plant Biology: Ecology and Organismic Plant Biology" by Govindjee,
Stipes Publishing, Champaign,IL.
© Slides
used in the class are to be found elsewhere on these Web pages.