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A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. (Monographs in Population Biology, No. 23) (Monographs in Population Biology, 23) - Softcover

O'Neill, Robert V.

 
9780691084374: A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. (Monographs in Population Biology, No. 23) (Monographs in Population Biology, 23)
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ISBN 10: 0691084378 ISBN 13: 9780691084374
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

Ecosystem is an intuitively appealing concept to most ecologists, but, in spite of its widespread use, the term remains diffuse and ambiguous. The authors of this book argue that previous attempts to define the concept have been derived from particular viewpoints to the exclusion of others equally possible. They offer instead a more general line of thought based on hierarchy theory. Their contribution should help to counteract the present separation of subdisciplines in ecology and to bring functional and population/community ecologists closer to a common approach. Developed as a way of understanding highly complex organized systems, hierarchy theory has at its center the idea that organization results from differences in process rates. To the authors the theory suggests an objective way of decomposing ecosystems into their component parts. The results thus obtained offer a rewarding method for integrating various schools of ecology.

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Robert V. O'Neill, Donald Lee Deangelis, J. B. Waide & Timothy F. H. Allen

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1986
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691084378
ISBN 13 
9780691084374
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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