Primary Succession on Land Book

	Preface
	Introduction: Understanding the fundamentals of succession	1
	Cryptoendolithic communities from hot and cold deserts: Speculation on microbial colonization and succession	5
	Microbial processes and initial stabilization of fellfield soil	17
	The effects of cryptogams on mineral substrates	33
	The role of bryophyte propagule banks in primary succession: Case-study of an Antarctic fellfield soil	55
	Mechanisms of primary succession on volcanoes: A view from Mount St Helens	79
	Primary succession on the cone of Vesuvius	101
	The colonization of strandlines	113
	Plant distribution patterns and primary succession on a glacier foreland: A comparative study of cryptogams and higher plants	133
	Dispersal and establishment of tropical forest assemblages, Krakatoa, Indonesia	147
	Physiological controls over plant establishment in primary succession	161
	The vascular plant pioneers of primary succession: Persistence and phenotypic plasticity	179
	The demography of clonal plants in relation to successional habitat change: The case of Spartina anglica	193
	The role of nitrogen fixation in primary succession on land	209
	Primary succession on man-made wastes: The importance of resource acquisition	221
	Nitrogen fixers and species replacements in primary succession	249
	Soil organisms in coastal foredunes involved in degeneration of Ammophila arenaria	273
	Primary succession on land: Community development and wildlife conservation	283
	Primary succession revisited	295
	Index	303