A New Ecology
Systems Perspective| By: | Soeren Nors Nielsen; Brian D. Fath; Simone Bastianoni; Joao C. Marques; Felix Muller; Bernard D. Pat |
| Publisher: | Elsevier S & T |
| Print ISBN: | 9780444637574 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780444637642 |
| Edition: | 2 |
| Copyright: | 2020 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.
- Contains revised, updated or redeveloped chapters that include the most current research and technology
- Reviews universal traits of ecosystems from multiple perspectives, giving the reader a complete overview of the systems perspective of ecology
- Offers broad examples of ecology as a systems science, from the history of science, to philosophy and the arts
- Brings together the systems perspective in a framework of four columns for greater understanding, including thermodynamics, network theory, hierarchy theory and biochemistry
- Contains new chapter on the application of the theory to environmental management