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In all cases of possible linkages between plants and animals, a state of order establishes itself and a system is formed; for example, the boreal coniferous forest or the mixed forest of the cool, moderate climate. There are flows of energy and mass in any kind of forest between a finite number of system components which can be registered in a system’s inventory. They are determined qualitatively by their vector qualities and quantitatively by their individual fluxes, which are variable. Their state at any arbitrary time depends on the age of the system relative to the climax stage. The duration of the climax phases of the respective plant species is determined by the collective population-level resistance to abiotic and biotic environmental factors.
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Lunderstädt, J. (1988). Resistance of Plants at the Population Level to Attack by Phytophagous Insects. In: Mattson, W.J., Levieux, J., Bernard-Dagan, C. (eds) Mechanisms of Woody Plant Defenses Against Insects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3828-7_7
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