Lesson 12 - Alaska Geobotany Center

A broader view of Gleason: Nicholson (1990)• Later in life, Gleason acknowledged the advantage and practicalimportance of identifying and classifying plant communities (Nicholson,1990, p. 152) and even did not object to something very similar tomonoclimax hypothesis of Clements as long as the history and individualnature of species were recognized as the prime movers of ecologicalsuccession (Nicholson, p, 152-153).