Floristic homogenization and impoverishment [Elektronische Ressource] : herb layer changes over two decades in deciduous forest patches of the Weser-Elbe region (NW Germany) / von Tobias Naaf

Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Universität Potsdam Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung, Müncheberg Floristic homogenization and impoverishment – herb layer changes over two decades in deciduous forest patches of the Weser-Elbe region (NW Germany) Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades "doctor rerum naturalium" (Dr. rer. nat.) in der Wissenschaftsdisziplin "Vegetationsökologie" eingereicht an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam von Tobias Naaf Potsdam, den 19. Januar 2011 Published online at the Institutional Repository of the University of Potsdam: URL http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5244/ URN urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-52446 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-52446 Table of Contents __________________________ General Introduction.................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1.................................................................................................................... 13 “Habitat specialists and generalists drive homogenization and differentiation of temperate forest plant communities at the regional scale” 1.1 Abstract 14 1.2 Introduction 14 1.3 Methods 16 1.4 Results 21 1.5 Discussion 25 1.6 Conclusions 27 1.7 Acknowledgements 28 1.