The following two ecology chapters, Chapter 31 (The Dynamics of Communities and Ecosystems) and Chapter 32 (Global Ecology), have been thoroughly updated for the seventh edition of Biology of Plants with major contributions from Paul Zedler at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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