Fundamental Processes in Ecology: An Earth Systems Approach
The book presents a way to study ecosystems that is not yet available in current textbooks but is resonant with current thinking in the emerging fields of geobiology and Earth System Science. It asks and endeavours to answer the question, what are the really fundamental characteristics of living systems that might allow them to sustain life? The author goes on to show how the idea of fundamental ecological processes can be developed at the systems level,specifically their involvement in control and feedback mechanisms. This is not a popular science book about Gaian theory, instead it is written as a text and is directed at a predominantly sci…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-856846-9
- EAN: 9780198568469
- Produktnummer: 22682411
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B15.9 cm x D1.5 cm 621 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 621
Über den Autor
David M Wilkinson is Reader in Environmental Science in the School of Biological and Earth Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. He has wide interests within the environmental and biological sciences, where much of his research is on theoretical topics within evolutionary ecology, biogeography and Earth systems science. In addition he is involved in more empirical research on soil protozoa, environmental archaeology and the history of science. His teachingcovers a diverse range of topics from the history of geology to forensic archaeology, but centres on various aspects of ecology.
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