Subject Index
Renosterbos see Phrygana
Resilience 10-15
Respiration
biomass 31
coefficient 52
-mass relationship 30-32
-temperature relationship 32-35
Restoration 64, 106
Rhythms 41,69
Selective forces 12,107,112,119,123
Semelparity 62-65
Severity
response to 117,120
environmental 11, 117
Sex ratio 64
Soil profile 5-6
Species
diversity 7-10,92
core 8,107-110
satellite 8,107-110
Strategy
adaptive 29,103,117-124
A-strategy 123
life history 53
maxithermal 41
R-C-S 14
reproductive 62-67
respiratory 39
r-K strategy 118-121
strategic thinking 29,118-119
tolerence 19
Succession 107
Survival curve 50,55,82, 112
Synchronisation tactics 69-71
Synchrony
generational 121,124
Thelytoky see Parthenogenesis
Thermoregulation
behavioural 41,122
evaporative 24
metabolic 55-56,65
Threshold
density 114
141
environmental 44,69, 122
moisturelhumididty 17,49, 124
temperature 1 33,49,50,53,70,119,124
Tolerance 19,25-27,84
range of 34, 120, 126
Tomillares see Phrygana
Transition matrix 87
Translocation
biomass 14
nutrient 14
water 24
Transpiration 21-26, 122
Voltinism 69, 121
Water
balance 18-22,122
deficit 4
relations 17-27,122,124