Toward a Unified Ecology

✍ Scribed by Timothy Allen; Thomas Hoekstra

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 504
Edition: second edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Presenta a new synthesis of the authors' core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Principles of Ecological Integration
2. The Landscape Criterion
3. The Ecosystem Criterion
4. The Community Criterion
5. The Organism Criterion
6. The Population Criterion
7. The Biome and Biosphere Criteria
8. Narratives for Complexity
9. Management of Ecological Systems
10. A Unified Approach to Basic Research
Conclusion
Notes
References

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