Successional research and environmental pollutant monitoring associated with biosphere reserves: Proceedings of the 2nd U.S.-U.S.S.R. symposium on biosphere reserves

Data are presented which relate the unpredictability of rainfallworldwide to the conspicuousness of the process of succession.
The main components of succession are identified and found tobe similar to those proposed in 1916 by Frederick Clements.
The six principal world biomes are shown to differ in the
nature of various aspects of successional processes. The
differences among biomes, it is suggested, can be used as thebasis of management decision-making during the reclamation ofanthropogenically altered lands.