Toward a Unified Ecology

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

List 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
Index

About the author

Timothy F. H. Allen is Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems (Princeton UP, 1986), and a co-author of Ecology (Oxford UP, 1998) and our own Toward a Unified Ecology (2e 2015).

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: T. F. H. Allen, Timothy Allen, Timothy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Allen, Timothy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) H Allen, Timothy F. H. Allen, Timothy F. H. Hoekstra Allen, Timothy F.h. Hoekstra Allen, Timothy Hoekstra Allen, Allen Timothy, Thomas (Sustainability International LLC) Hoekstra, Thomas W. Hoekstra, Hoekstra Thomas
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2015
• EAN: 9780231168892
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16889-2
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Complexity in Ecological Systems; Complexity in Ecological Systems
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Ecological science, the Biosphere, life sciences; environmental science