TOWARDS A UNIFIED ECOLOGY
Written by T.F.H. Allen, Thomas W. Hoekstra
Published by Columbia University Press
in 1992
ISBN: 0231069197
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TOWARDS A UNIFIED ECOLOGY
Written by T.F.H. Allen, Thomas W. Hoekstra.
Stock no. 1710867
1st.
1992.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Complexity in Ecological Systems series. The demands made of ecology today - that the discipline be predictive and that ecologists consider large-scale systems - require ecologists to deal with complex systems through a strict and consistent epistemology. This book explains that hierarchy theory's conventional "levels" are actually criteria for observation. The authors assert that the essential character of ecology's subdisciplines is a scale-dependent and present a conceptual framework for a more coherent view of ecology. Cardwraps. B/w diagrams and photos. xiii and 384 pages including index. ISBN: 0231069197. Text block slightly grubby. Initials in ink to top corner of front endpaper (neat). Else a clean copy.
Front cover
Contents
- The Principles of Ecological Integration
- The Landscape Criterion
- The Ecosystem Criterion
- The Community Criterion
- The Organism Criterion
- The Population Criterion
- The Biome and Biosphere Criteria
- Management of Ecological Systems
- A Unified Approach to Basic Research