A New Ecology: Systems Perspective – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780444637574,0444637575
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0444637575
- ISBN-13 : 978-0444637574
- Author: Soeren Nors Nielsen, Brian D. Fath, Simone Bastianoni, Joao C. Marques, Felix Muller, Bernard D. Patten, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Enzo Tiezzi
A New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Second Edition, gives an overview of the commonalities of all ecosystems from a variety of properties, including physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each chapter details basic and characteristic properties that help the reader understand how they can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of current ecological research and environmental management applications.
Table contents:
1. Introduction
2. Ecosystems have Openness (Thermodynamic)
3. Ecosystems have Ontic Openness
4. Ecosystems have Connectivity
5. Ecosystems as self-organizing Hierarchies
6. Ecosystems have Directionality
7. Ecosystems have Complex Dynamics (Growth and Development)
8. Ecosystems have Complex Dynamics (Disturbance and Decay)
9. Ecosystem Principles have Broad Explanatory Power in Ecology
10. Ecosystem Principles have Ecological Applications
11. Ecosystems carry important messages to Managers and Policy Makers
12. Conclusion
13. References
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